Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specific purpose of the campaign against Long was stated last night to be an endeavor to prefer the serious charges that have already been made against the Louisiana senator. At present the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the Senate has shelved the charges according to the Anti-Long faction and they demand a definite decision as to the Kingfish's status...
...believe what they read. Last week they sent for Mr. Knox. He laid aside his dog-whip, scudded into Geneva, told the commissioners that Nazi terrorists are already acting as if they own the Saar. To reenforce his 1,100 police, many of whom have been bribed by one faction or another, he demanded a police army of neutral troops. They cannot be French or German or even British or Italian. Commissioner Knox suggested they come from some country that did not sign the Versailles Treaty. The commissioners looked at him with the sad eyes of St. Bernard dogs. Resolute...
...starting a general European war. I think that if M. Doumergue's artifice succeeds it will be not because it is an essentially clever move but simply because the French public realizes that the definite triumph of any one party will result in civil war or worse. No one faction in France was capable of taking advantage of the late disturbances in order to provoke a successful revolt against Republicanism; and it is extremely unlikely that they will be afforded a sufficient opportunity again. The crucial moment in France has passed and has left the opponents of the existing order...
...unhappy country is highly dubious. It would seem that the Austrians instead of gladly welcoming any foreign aid that may be available to them have deliberately set out upon a course designed to make salvation from the powers doubly difficult. The seemingly hopeless division of country into completely irreconcilable faction has become an actual fact, and any chance of settling their differences amicably must be viewed as a more or less hopeless dream. The only possible opportunity for accomplishing this lies in the triumph of the ideas of Dollfuss; if anything at all is to be done to arrest...
...Congress could end the experiments of President Roosevelt," said the Petit Parisien, also of the Premier's faction, ''but American statesmen are not distinguished for courage...