Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure some months ago of the Panama Senate to ratify "the treaty of alliance and friendship," negotiated between Panama and the U. S. in 1924, was ascribed last week by Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg to articles published in the European press last year...
...places is held down, in all places he is exploited, in all places his blood is made a lubricant for the chariot wheels of other races. . . ." Resolutions. Negroes need: a voice in their own government; modern education for all children; the development of Africa for Africans, not European profit; the treatment of civilized men as civilized, despite difference of race or color; the removal from Haiti of U. S. military or naval forces; the improvement of racial conditions in Africa and the West Indies...
Conservative papers in England, Germany, Scandinavia, hesitated to express opinions or advice on a case falling entirely within the province of U. S. jurisprudence. One German editor, however, welcomed the U. S. into the fellowship of European "humanity, justice and culture" for its supposed stand against the forces of Communism...
...patriotic without being provincial. ("This is potentially the greatest music-loving country on earth. . . . Europe can still teach us much. ... So far as government interest in music is concerned, ours is not even civilized judged by European standards...
...capital of the plundering Nabataeans whose domain, in 100 B. C., stretched from Damascus on the north to Gaza on the west, through Palestine and east into the Arabian Desert. Some unrecorded tragedy wiped out the Nabataeans and made their city shunned by Arabs. The location was lost to European science until a German explorer found it again in 1812. . . . British Museum savants, aided now by their country's protectorate in Palestine, were first to set out for a thorough examination of the inaccessible ruin...