Word: imbroglio
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...diplomatic usage, that one might well doubt the competence of a democracy to handle them with awareness of general implications instead of with sporadic excitability. Indeed observers have asserted that in the foreign field democracy finds consistent policy impossible, and either comes to grief directly in an international imbroglio or falls into such disropute at home that "strong-arm" men are called upon to govern...
Also, if the United States and Russia become friendly, then Dictator Hitler in Berlin, who has been antagonizing the Soviets, may well wonder what the new understanding between Moscow and Washington would mean to a possible German-Russian Imbroglio...
...Japan is attempting to scuttle away with their Chinese Eastern Railway, and informally Tokio rather complacently admits complicity with such schemes. As this news climbs to more important levels on the front pages of the dailies, militarists are gleefully clapping their hands at the prospects of a first-class imbroglio, although the possibilities of the scare reaching war proportions seem very vague indeed...
...Frankfurter with the temperate sword of common sense is to reach for a sledge hammer when one is bitten by a flea. Better by far to accept the "little volume" as a simple gift of the gods sent to relieve the tedium of depression and that irritating Eastern imbroglio. This is after all "that best of all possible worlds" in which everything is designed to a certain end. Let T. N. T. be the cathartic necessary to purge the American system, for, as Professor Babbitt would have it, Mr. Hadley has "poured his baby out with the bath...
...diplomacy all too typical of its previous vacillations, the American government has given orders for the entire Atlantic fleet to sail for the Pacific and join the American vessels already there. The entire American navy will stortly be conducting operations within a short distance of the Sino-Japanese imbroglio. Such a situation is almost bound to be interpreted as a practical sequel to the policy outlined in Secretary Stimson's note of Feb. 24 to Senator Horah...