Word: imperialistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carries an eyeglass; to him also he is slim and neatly dressed; yet the American, unlike the German, is not impressed by these elegancies; he considers them ridiculous; and thus, although he is frequently assured by his own politicians that the Englishman is, in fact, a cold-blooded imperialist who spends his time in jumping on the underdog, he does not take these accusations very seriously. . . . To him we appear as slightly comic figures. I am aware that, psychologically speaking, the laughter that we arouse in the American breast is mainly due to their own pathetic self-consciousness...
...middle, with a childish, open smile and a vocabulary of violent radicalism. Tony's mother was U. S. born and he was born in Philadelphia where his father was a professor of Spanish at Girard College, but Tony was Cuba's most violently anti-U. S., anti-imperialist, a focus for the most personal and violent emotions in the highly personal politics of Cuba. When Cuba swung Left after the 1933 revolution, it swung toward Tony and he became Secretary Guiteras of the Army, Navy and Interior. He was a great one for issuing decrees...
...career diplomat, "but the seasonal fruit and vegetable industry has shown remarkable improvement." Imports from the U. S. for the last quarter of 1934 were up 127%; customs collections for approximately the same period, up 50%; Havana bank clearings, up $60,000,000. All this, however, was just such "imperialistic optimism" as Cuban radicals expect from a U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. Much more remarkable was the fact that the interviewer who reported Mr. Caffery's words without criticism for the North American Newspaper Alliance was Imperialist-Baiting Author Carleton Beals...
Thoroughly confused, Anti-Imperialist Beals, knowing that U. S. businessmen now own 80% of the rich Cuban sugar lands, obtained only one joker from Mr. Caffery's mouth. "Ultimately," he quoted the Ambassador as saying, "the Cubans may want to buy back the land they need for a healthy economic life...
...sitting business as "A BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL DECENCY," then printed all week furious threats to Japan, Germany and every other nation with which the Soviet Union might find itself at war. Roared Pravda, official organ of the Party: "History is working in our favor, and know ye, Mister Imperialist, that if you impose war on us we will fight, not on our territory, but on yours...