Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warren's order for the immediate resumption of work goes in the teeth of German protests against monuments of this type. Only recently the Berlin Government made unofficial representations against a War memorial at Dinant, Belgium, depicting a German soldier holding above his head a baby speared on a bayonet. Nevertheless, Mr. Warren said that his action in regard to the Louvain Library reflected the sentiments of most of the population of Louvain...
...Dronte acts and thinks like a character of Defoe or Smollett. His life is a coarse one spent as a student carousing at a German university, as a musketeer, calloused by army life, and as a wanderer, arrogant one moment and miserable the next. He has a taste of intensely pure and happy married life only to be dashed to the depths of depraved vagabondage. He witnesses the great social changes of his time both from the rank of a nobleman and from the position of a beggar...
...cordial reception accorded a German actress on the Parisian stage, as well as other straws in the wind, have shown an increase in Franco-German amity. But the dove of peace has not flown over the same route as that taken by the German troops in 1914, for that way went through Belgium. And Belgium, unlike France, shows no disposition to forgive. The latest indication of this comes in the news that the inscription in the new Library of Louvain: "Destroyed by German fury; rebuilt by American love," is to remain unchanged in deference to the wishes of the populace...
...Doctor Nicholas Murray Butler at their head, would have the text modified, but as contributors of one-sixth the total sum, they have no controlling vote. Germany has remained silent, having in mind perhaps the ineffectuality of her, unofficial protest against the war memorial at Dinant, which depicts a German soldier holding aloft on his bayonet the body of a Belgian baby...
...special engine, the first of its kind every built in this country, has been purchased, and will be used for the experiment projected by the Engineering School. This engine, remarkable or its high potential speed, is of German invention. The problem facing engineers at present is to get higher speed and less weight, and the achievement of this end would make diesel airplane engines practical...