Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading an article by the daughter of Chief Justice Taft, Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr College. "It is estimated," estimated Mrs. Manning, "that nearly 500,000 Americans have crossed the Atlantic this summer. ... I should be the last to question the benefits or the delights of European travel, and yet one may without cynicism question whether the hasty progress which is being made by the greater part of the 500,000 Americans through England, France, Italy, and no doubt several other countries, will really produce much imprint on minds either young or old. Tours carefully planned...
...demonstrated again last week by a flood of rumors containing dire hints of secret "war clauses." Though everyone knows that secrecy between nations breeds misunderstandings and wars, the Fascist Tribuna declared in an exultant editorial: "Following the good old method of secret diplomacy, a solid contribution to post-war European pacification has been achieved...
...cables touted last week that there is being erected at Moscow a broadcaster powerful enough to "crash through" any European station. Reputedly Soviet propaganda will be released daily at the hour, in the language, and on the wave length of the principal European stations. At the pleasure of the Third International, the new station may assumedly be used to produce "radio tidal waves" of "artificial static...
Though the U. S. stands in no immediate prospect of a Moscow station powerful enough to "jam" stations across the Atlantic, European statesmen were distinctly vexed, last week at the probability that millions of Godfearing, Capital-revering Europeans will soon be listening to such siren-tongued orators as the Soviet régime can muster...
...really Catholic. The Roman Church occupies here a place not much different from that which it might hold in a Confucian, Shinto, Brahman, or pagan country. For Mexico is obsessed by Aztec nationalism, by a desire to extirpate the religion of those who brought her both Christianity and European civilization, and to exalt the memory of the Montezuman emperors. This campaign has culminated in a feeling that the Roman Church is antinational. This is the reason why we need expect no Mexican, whether Indian or non-Indian, to become a martyr for his faith. It explains, furthermore, why the extraordinarily...