Word: imperialistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
Meantime it was revealed that Dictator Stalin was doing a brisk cash trade with Dictator Mussolini in war materials shipped on Greek vessels out of Black Sea ports, to the perplexity of Communist stevedores who have been led to understand that the Third International scowls at imperialist wars...
Jabber-in-Chief is Japan's great Imperialist Railroader-Diplomat Yosuke Matsuoka, recently made president of the S. M. R. (TIME, Aug. 12). He ordered garlic issued to his 2,000 track workers "to give them strength." Springing to action at 5 a. m. 96 gangs had the entire 150 miles of track narrowed to S. M. R. gauge in three hours. According to Mr. Matsuoka, his all-steel, air-conditioned, streamlined Asia Express will now average 63 m. p. h. up the 600-mile spear from Dairen to Harbin...
Communist Party expects to foment "strikes of unprecedented magnitude." Asserting that California Communist stevedores enjoy cordial relations with the Communist stevedores of The Netherlands and Australia. Mr. Darcy wisely observed: "The international contacts of the working class acquire special significance in connection with the danger of an imperialist war. It is essential to win great influence among the sailors and port workers engaged in loading and transporting military supplies." In their speeches Reds Browder & Darcy appeared less confident of any immediate triumph by U. S. Communism than fearful that their revolutionary cause be squashed by the immediate rise...