Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seat on the Council of the League of Nations; and why she withdrew from the League when this legitimate aspiration was denied her (TIME, June 21, 1926). Shrewdly the statesmen of Brazil claim that the League of Nations will continue to be dominated by a selfish little gang of European states, so long as no American nation and no Asiatic nation except Japan is permanently seated on the Council...
...bring Dictator-President Cipriano Castro perceptibly to reason. He started out in 1900 by springing a successful coup d'etat, and grandiloquently announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors; 2) seizing British and Dutch ships on the ground that "personal enemies of myself are being nurtured in British and French Guiana;" and 3) grossly insulting the French Government by refusing to allow their Minister...
...significant and smiting fact about all the Guianas is their stunted and negligible development under supposedly enlightened European aegis. During the present year a shocked House of Commons has been scandalized by the discovery that forgotten British Guiana has never had a British constitution and has hastily provided one. Since the colony possesses diamond fields, these have been exploited by absentee-owned syndicates; but it is fair and just to say that Great Britain has lamentably failed to turn her famed colonizing talents to the development of British Guiana. Equally deplorable is the Dutch failure to make anything...
...vexed have Afghan males grown at the European pants into which they have been put (TIME, Sept. 10) that last week a large portion of the army revolted, seized the capital, Kabul, and chased King Amanullah with Queen Thuraya to an outlying fort, where they took refuge with loyal troops...
...warlike moves, fearing lest some might think his company endangered, Matchmaker Kreuger last week spoke sharply, scornfully. Said he, through the Swedish International Press Bureau: "The Japanese Trust is our good friend. The Chinese syndicates do not exist. Russian matches are not good enough to compete with us in European markets...