Word: embroilments
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...honest attempt at democracy. Profiteering should be made a crime: there should be an end to gambling in wheat: labor hold be as well protected as capital before the law. There should be established an organization, tending for world peace on sea and land, but one not likely to embroil the United States in petty European quarrels. Above all trade relations with Russia should be immediately resumed...
...French Revolution one hundred and fifty thousand nobles non-juring, priests, and dissident bourgeois crossed the frontiers to escape the impending deluge. Many of them clustered in the little. German states in the east where, at Coblenz and Worms, they established headquarters for the intrigues which were to embroil Europe. Intellectually, however, they were incapable of understanding and appreciating the birth of the new regime, and they soon made themselves conspicuous through vanity and rashness...
...latter. England was against slavery, but she was also very much in need of cotton and opposed to the United States tariffs; and the problem of keeping England neutral was one of the hardest faced by the Administration. The policy of Seward, secretary of State, seemed to be to embroil the United States abroad, hoping thereby to bring about a reunion at home. Troubled by the actions of his chief minister, Lincoln was plunged into deeper difficulties by the Trent Affair, where Captain Wilks of the United States Navy boarded the British ship "Trent" and took off Mason and Slidell...
...neutral canal would be its control in case of war.- (2) The United States could not maintain this control in case of war: Woolsey in Yale Review, (Feb., 1896).- (e) It would force the United States to abandon her long settled foreign policy.- (1) It would tend to embroil her in disputes with European nations.- (x) They would not submit to our arbitrary interference in assuming exclusive control of an inter-oceanic water-way.- (y) The Suez Canal has set the precedent for the neutrality of such a water-way.- (2) It would force her to maintain, at immense expense...