Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have rarely been in a more happy condition. . . . Our relations with South America are on the most satisfactory basis that they have been for 25 years. On the far side of the Pacific our situation is equally satisfactory. We have no important unadjusted problem with the government of any European nation, with the exception of Russia . . . . All the issues that arose, even out of the World War, have been adjusted...
...Melville Elijah Stone became general manager of the Associated Press of Illinois, Inc. and soon made it dominant in a field which had been confused by three conflicting news services. The present Associated Press was incorporated in 1900. By sending Associated Press correspondents abroad and by making alliances with European news agencies, General Manager Stone gave the U. S. more complete and impartial foreign news. Previously, most of the despatches had come through London and hence were British-colored...
...delegates held a secret session in the Bank of France at which they unanimously besought Mr. Young to chairman the second Dawes Committee, on account of the leading role which he played on the first Dawes Committee. Since President Calvin Coolidge has intimated that he would prefer a European chairman, Mr. Young is obliged to query the White House by cable, in code. Signor Benito Mussolini has meanwhile observed in Rome: "To assemble the committee has cost four months of time. It is to be hoped that its labors will proceed more expe-ditiously...
...Grove never becomes sentimental--his early life as a bored cynic among the petty literati of European salons precludes sentimentality. His excellent and expensive academic education gives him a background and a sense of proportion and combines with his very real talent as a writer to give us a unique document...
This book stands as a reminder that we moderns are the immediate heirs of the middle ages. It is an absorbing account of the political social, economic and cultural development of the most interesting period of European History...