Word: feudality
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...borrow money for homes from its own savings and loan company funds. Tribune newlyweds receive gifts of flat silver. And once a year the Colonel, in cutaway, receives all Tribune employes (3,000) in the main lobby, treats them to coffee and sandwiches. Paternalism on the Tribune, administered with feudal directness by the Colonel himself, has had potent influence on his staff...
Fact is that Lord Halifax has a fine set of those British virtues which the U.S. least understands. So he is considered a symbol of British aristocracy, of the Tories, of feudal England, although he is probably more representative of contemporary England than U.S. Ambassador John Winant is representative of contemporary U.S. life. Many a U.S. citizen fears the influence of British aristocracy, of British stuffiness in U.S. life, as many a Briton hates to think of U.S. movies, U.S. ways, U.S. "vulgarity" influencing British culture. Of the two, the American is the touchier. If some excitable Colonel Blimp...
...influence of their Spanish background, estimates the power of the Catbolic Church and the German and Japanese fifth columus, and fully develops the economic and political situations of the ABC countries in particular. He warns that the proletarians and growing middle classes are pro-American, but that the feudal aristocracies with some of the intelligentsia will sell out like Fritz Thyssen to Fascism. Herring writes with understanding, objectivity, and candor; and though his style is the beautiful prose of the scholar of language and literature, he is no effervescent schoolmarm gushing about the strange scenery of foreign shores...
...Japanese nation is composed of war-like tribes. From their primitive stage, men of god physique and intelligence were pressed into military service. Under the feudal system, samurai were the "knights" or professional soldiers. They became hereditary warriors who enjoyed special privileges and prestige over their dull and weaker brethren who tilled the soil and engaged in other sorts of civilian life. The samurai were as proud as if they were the guardians of their nation. They believed "might is right" and the sword is justice. So great was their influence that the country came under the domination of their...
Toady there is no feudal system in Japan, but the ideals of samurai thrive and are deeply imbedded in the heart of every Japanese. Samuraism is the very core of their present national policy, and the Japanese believe that the prosperity and glory of their empire can only be derived from conquest this end they are ready to undergo privation and are ready to die. That is why there is no revolution in Japan and the people still cling together after four years of disastrous adventure in China...