Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...over 20,000 miles, and studied closely the workings of the Soviet regime, during which time he met most of the members of the Soviet Cabinet, including Premier Lenine. Among other things he assisted in the smuggling of a million copies of President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" printed in German, into the Austrian and German lines...
Evidence is becoming overwhelming that, in spite of the wordy smoke-screen and conciliatory barrage emanating from Berlin, German character has not much changed with defeat. This is partly due to the Teutonic mind which refused to believe that the Central Powers were crushed; partly due to the obvious facts that old international jealousies and frictions are cropping out among the Allies. But whatever the causes of the regeneration of the old Prussian arrogance, the world is endangered until the Germans are made to realize that they must turn over a new leaf...
...Will not our soldiers have died in vain clipping the claws of the German beast if the claws of the beasts sullenly stirring in England, Japan, Italy and innumerable lesser countries are permitted to grow unchecked? And the check is the League of Nations...
...learned in his youth to respect Lenine and an Irish agitator or agitatress; a Western I. W. W. angered because of the treatment of his leaders in our courts and an eastern highbrow who had detected an inconsistency in the government's policy; a former editor of a German paper who could see no wrong in the Lusitania affair and a religious pacifist who would not take another life to protect...
...virtual prohibition of Mr. Kreisler's playing it takes an attitude that is Prussian in essence, and diametrically contrary to real Americanism. There is nothing un-American or unpatriotic in listening to great music. Art transcends international boundaries -- a thing is beautiful whether it is American, or German, or Czecho-Slovakian, in its origin. Mr. Kreisler, while he is Austrian and fought three months against Russia, being honorably discharged after wounded in defence of his country, is a genius of high calibre. His mastery of the violin places him among the first players of modern times...