Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peers was filled with some of the Empire's fairest women, including 45 students of the Tokyo brides' school. Neither Peers nor newshawks could restrain smoldering glances at the visitors' necks, chalk-white with rice powder. The genteel interplay of glances was abruptly interrupted by Imperialist Baron Ryoitsu Asada...
...confident imperialist feels he is a big man with friends and allies, and Mr. Hirota dwelt upon how "Italy, understanding our true motives, has collaborated with us along all lines." As Disraeli might have referred to the voyages of the then Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), he announced: "I am glad to say that Japan and Germany have been brought closer together than ever by such auspicious events as the visit of His Imperial Highness Prince Chichibu, who was pleased to make a tour of that country...
There is no newspaper in America that can compare with the London Morning Post. Oldest daily in the British Empire, it was established three years before the American Revolution. Coleridge, Lamb and Wordsworth were among its writers. Imperialist and conservative, it snorted bitterly against any change even in its own party. Alongside this crusty diehard, the New York Herald Tribune might easily be mistaken for the Communist Daily Worker. Sad was the day in plush British drawing rooms when the Morning Post began to limp. After the Depression it reduced its price from twopence to the vulgar level...
...world's diamond-mining industry one day last week in the company's famed board room in Kimberley, South Africa. Occasion was the 49th annual meeting of the company which, for all practical purposes, is the world's diamond industry. Founded by the young imperialist who established the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, originally chartered with powers not only to engage in commercial exploitation but also to raise armies and make war, annex and govern territory, De Beers through its affiliates now accounts for about 95% of the world's uncut diamonds. Not all these diamonds come from...
...preventable within the framework of capitalism in its present imperialist phase", claimed the British Laborite. "There will be war because the whole relation of production is out of gear with the power of governments...