Word: jingoistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pacifist and jingoist alike, the issue is not whether we are to erect temporal barriers, which aggressive nations have continually disregarded, in the way of war, but whether we truly desire war. In the case of Japan it is hard to visualize any peaceful release for her excessive population unless the other Pacific powers permit immigration. The comfortable American bourgeois regards preparations for a clash with righteous alarm, but it is his determination to maintain his standard of living against intruding economic elements which will precipitate a struggle...
...anybody else, providing somebody else starts the war. You must not be put off by the humbug about disarmament. The possibility of diabolical war must be faced, though I hope and trust it will peter out in general ridicule." In the House of Commons moon-faced Winston Churchill, a jingoist since he first marched off to the Boer War at the age of 22, roared the loudest: "An entirely new situation has been created by rubbing the sore of the disarmament conference until it has become a cancer, and largely by the uprush of the Nazi movement." Mr. Churchill demanded...
According to all the accused, they had thought that "pacifist" Premier Inukai's jingoist War Minister, Lieut. -General Sadao Araki, would succeed him as Premier instead of remaining War Minister, which he still...