Word: huns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that the situation is a very "preoccupying feature of the national life." France finds her low birth rate an asset and a liability, and is consequently in a quandary. Her limited supply of cannon fodder has long been considered the weak spot in her armor against the prolific Hun. The deadly baby is Germany's strongest weapon in her ancient feud with France. The other horn of the dilemma is the fact that French economic strength depends on a society of small land-holders, so that a new born baby has almost as great a capacity for inflicting injury...
...hun-dred per-cent American...
Since the war this Spanish novelist has been thrust from the lime-light back upon the obscure wings of the stage. He intends now to recover his stellar role by leading a new crusade against Spanish military despotism. The present foe is not the Hun, but the repressive Directory headed by General Primo de Rivera. It is against this hydra of temporal and intellectual enslavement that Ibanez is trying to arouse universal indignation...
Germany wants more money. She has a horrid gap in the budget. What can she do? Possibly nine-tenths of the population of the world are millionaires in German eyes. Then they must be taxed. This cannot be done, but a brilliant Hun thought put a wonderful scheme of taxing foreign words. Thus if anybody prefers "hotel" for " gasthof," "coiffeur" for " haarkünstler," " restaurant " for " wirtschaft," he must pay for offending the populace with these horrid, florid words...
...over her invasion of the Ruhr, but the comment is not intrinsically pro-German. It is usually a disapproval of the French method. It seems unlikely that France will get as much as she expected from the Ruhr; but if she does win through, and succeeds in forcing the Hun to his knees, many voices will unite in shouting: "Vive la France!" Policy. The damage caused to France during the war is an old story. It hardly needs repetition. The French claim that 85,750,000,000 francs worth of damage was done and say that what they want...