Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hispanidad to the New World and reestablish Spain as the dominant cultural, economic and political influence in Latin America. El Caudillo dreamed of empire. In this exuberant period, there must have been at least a half-dozen occasions when Falange extremists almost carried the day for war, for an imperialist adventure to unify and recreate Spain. But Franco always decided to wait a little longer...
...issue the Congress reached a stalemate: the character of World War II. Two motions on this were voted equally-one, that it is a democratic, antiFascist, liberating war; the other, that it is an imperialist war among the great powers for world control. Fascism had convinced Latin American students of its evils; the Allies had not yet convinced them of Allied aims...
...might be tormenting him. In his youth he had been a vociferous, stinging pleader for socialism and pacifism. For such views he had seen the inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...
...those in the U.S. who, for either liberal or imperialist reasons, want the British Empire liquidated, Winston Churchill spoke plainly. Though willing to compromise on its title, he glories in the Empire and is not ashamed of the word: "I think the expression, British Commonwealth and Empire, may well be found the most convenient means to describe this unique association of races which was built up partly by conquest, largely by consent. . . . The universal ardor of our colonial empire to join in this awful conflict . . . is the first answer that I would make to those ignorant, envious voices who call...
...Live Dangerously." With such threads Mussolini has tried to weave a web of resistance. He has told his people that an Allied victory means enslavement to imperialist powers. He has titillated their sense of personal honor and national pride, as he did in 1935 when he defied the sanctions imposed (but not enforced) by the League of Nations during the Ethiopian campaign. Italians rallied behind him then. They may do so more generally now than the Allies expect. At least Mussolini has built up a façade of bravado, patterned on the ancient cry of the gladiators...