Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Margot, famed wife of ex-Premier Herbert Asquith, turned her pen to journalism. In the New York American, she explained "Why My Husband Made MacDonald Prime Minister." According to Margot, it was because a Conservative-Liberal fusion was impossible, positively dishonorable, so her husband decided to throw the weight of the Liberal Party behind the Laborites. Speaking for the Liberals, she concluded: "With courage and patience we hope to avoid what a Centre Party would certainly create-the folly and danger of seeing all the rich pitted against the poor...
...waxed wrathful and declared, by all the gods, that General Ludendorff should not come to Salzburg. He further intimated to the Pan-Germans that their celebration would be permitted only on condition that German Nationalist organizations and German Racialists withdrew. For, in fact, Pan Germanism now means the fusion of Austria and Germany...
...attributed to those who sponsor the tutorial system at Harvard has been amply proved by their attitude of intelligent progress and experimentation in the past. And if this their latest experiment of comparison is given a fair trial and due consideration, they may achieve their desire. A proper fusion of the Oxonion tutorial system with the still youthful Harvard tutorial system, may in the not-too-distant future produce a wholly desirable system--to be called, perhaps, the Superlatively Successful; to be welcomed, perhaps, by all departments that aim at education...
...major move of the utmost importance occurred when Messrs. Lloyd George and Asquith decided to bury their hatchets and unite the Liberal Party under Mr. Asquith. Sir Alfred Mond and Sir John Simon were credited with having engineered the meeting of the two ex-Premiers which resulted in the fusion. It was regarded as certain that, should the Liberals win the general election in December, Mr. George would assume the Premiership while Mr. Asquith retained the leadership of the Party, thus giving the two control. Another report stated that Mr. Asquith will either become Premier for a short time...
...alarm felt, particularly in Socialist circles, was undoubtedly accentuated by memories of the Spartacan Rebellion of 1919 and the Kapp Putsch of 1920, the one Communist, the other Monarchist. With both parties stronger than ever they have been since the War, their proposed temporary fusion is indeed food for serious thought...