Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory finally came to China-a great double triumph in war and diplomacy. There were still uncertainties ahead-as there were uncertainties ahead of every power in the world, great and small. But never in modern times had the great nation of 450,000,000 people been so close to...
An underground Resistance leader, Charles Louis Barres, ascribed his escape from execution to Pátain's intervention. Blind septuagenarian General Emile Delannurien praised Marshal Pátain for protecting France in her dark hours.
Sovereignty, pervading San Francisco, dictated the charter's principle of "domestic jurisdiction." Under it, the world organization may reach into a country to get at the causes of war only when all the Big Powers agree that world peace is en dangered. The section finally agreed on gives a...
But the British seemed reluctant to take another step that might further disrupt relations with their essential, difficult ally. French General Fernand Oliva-Roget suddenly turned up in Paris, where he denied that his shelling of Damascus had been "indiscriminate." He said that the outbreaks had been deliberately provoked by...
A factory worker's son and a militant trade unionist, Dimitroff began making international incidents in the early 1920s. En route to the second Comintern Congress in Moscow, he was picked up in Rumania as a spy, was rescued from liquidation by Russian intervention. In 1923 he led Bulgaria...