Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extreme concern to the Court-adherent nations. That reservation demands, as a condition of U. S. adherence, that the Court shall not render any advisory opinion affecting any question in which the U. S. has an interest unless the U. S. consents. "What does that mean?" cry European diplomats. "What authority is to decide whether a given question is one in which the U. S. has an interest? Does the U. S. claim the right to make this decision herself? If so, what question can possibly come up in which the U. S. might not claim to have an interest...
Before the new Viceroy many another potentate must bow: the Maharaja of Mysore, known as the most progressive of Indian rulers; the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, better known as "Mr. A."; the Maharaja of Patiala, whose habit it is to attend European social functions literally swathed in pearls. . . . All these sovereigns, by a sublime irony, are now under the benevolent tutelage of a gentleman who was known until a month ago merely as the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co. last week offered $10,000,000 of bonds of "Arbed," the United Steel Works of Burbach-Eich-Dudelange, Luxembourg, the largest European steel makers. Their annual ingot capacity is 2,770,000 tons, ranking next to U. S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
...policy of these few men who controlled France and Russia during the two years immediately preceding the war seems reasonably clear. They apparently saw that a general European war in which they expected to crush the members of the Triple Alliance was the only way of satisfying their ambitious, and they worked toward this goal consciously and purposely...
...France and Russia did, if she had been in their positions. In fact earlier in the year 1914 when Germany thought she could count on the aid of Italy, and had high hopes of England's remaining neutral, she was not at all adverse to the possibility of a European war. She did not, however, go so far as to make war inevitable, as France and Russia did. And then during the summer when Germany saw that things were not going as she had hoped and that her position was decidedly the weaker of the two she tried everything...