Word: information
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, the voters inform themselves by personal investigations, of the proposals of the Plan, in their true proportions, the referendum becomes a vote on the League of Nations, and as such peculiarly significant. The League has never been submitted to the nation on its own merits, stripped of party sponsorship and political personalities. In 1920, there was a choice of Mr. Cox and his League, or Mr. Harding and any other foreign policy, and the personalities had the utmost importance in the final decision. Ever since the League was visualized by Mr. Wilson, it has labored under the disadvantage...
Under instructions received from my Government, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency as follows...
Someone accused Baroness Katarina von Ohimb, lady member of the Reichstag, of "playing petticoat politics" during the last Cabinet crisis. Retorted the good lady: "You will have to look elsewhere for the guilty parties, and to help your search I will inform you that bowing to the dictates of the present fashion I do not wear petticoats." Die Tageszeitung, reactionary Berlin journal, added ironically: "Every German politician knows that the Baroness wears trousers, not petticoats...
...desires regarding the opera to be selected, but as the present attitude of the company clearly indicates that you now deem this entirely unnecessary, I am obliged to accept your decision, inasmuch, as I am bound to the company for this season. I deem it fair, however, to inform you at this time that in view of your complete ignoring of even a preliminary discussion of my preference I shall not be with the company next season...
...inevitable, while only a third denied this or thought war to be conditional on the behavior of the two nations. The significant fact is that the reasons in the first case tended to be of a primitive nature, while in the second case they indicated intelligence and-more important-information. The moral is: Inform, the assumption being that knowledge is the chief enemy of prejudice and so of war. It is a sound assumption...