Word: imperialist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Imperialist Woodhead, Thus every page of Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead's memoirs carries the brisk imprint of the Imperialist, the white man of business who finds the Chinese "anti-foreign," and has a hankering sympathy for the Japanese because today they are a people with the virility and strength the White Race once showed in bursting into China, and establishing itself with special superior status in the "treaty ports." Not only does Editor Woodhead take many illustrious Chinese to task, but he relates a wealth of anecdotes. Of the humble Chinese family whose robber son was being strangled slowly...
...Peace. With that idea which dreamy Socialists hoped would prevent the bloodshed of 1914-18, the same delegates last week proposed "in any imperialist war we call upon President Green to immediately call a general strike of all workers affiliated with the A. F. of L." But all they got out of William Green was a pious phrase: "Under no circumstances whatever must we be drawn into this European...
...Britain's delegation at Geneva repeated daily last week that His Majesty's Government were not acting "against" Italy but "for" the League covenant. They firmly deprecated all suggestions that Britain was bent on curbing Italy to protect her own imperial interests in Africa. "No selfish or imperialist motives enter into our minds," they all said, recalling the similar declaration at Geneva of new British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare (TIME. Sept...
...years later this young imperialist visited London where he saw streets and orphanages swarming with grubby, undernourished children...
...fact that the Empire has won more overseas territory than His Majesty's Government always know what to do with. Proposing once again his favorite project to "call a World Conference to redistribute resources on a fair basis among all nations," Christian Socialist Lansbury cried: "Britain is the greatest Imperialist power in the world. The call which Christ gave to the Rich Young Man to give up his riches is the same call which Britain should heed now!" Hoping to Heaven that peaceful Old George will resign, ambitious Herbert Morrison, the Cockney Labor boss of the London County Council...