Word: jingoists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pretty cunning, very crafty in some of their methods of dealing with situations. . . . They have talked about a red-blooded attitude on the part of Canada They have chosen their ground well, because, if there is one thing above another that the honorable gentlemen are good at, it is jingoist pronouncements, more particularly when they relate to the United States. But may I say to my honorable friends opposite it is not a red-blooded attitude that is needed at the present moment so much as a cool-headed attitude, and a cool-headed attitude is the attitude which this...
...Negotiations were begun with President Poincare of France, a hot jingoist for a war to regain Alsace-Lorraine, and plans were laid for a sweeping continental war. Poincare's correspondence of this period shows this. Austria had aims in the Balkans, and as these conflicted with Russian plans, and irritated Serbia, the Balkans were the logical seat...
Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki smothered last week the loud jingoist demands of his Minister of Marine (TIME, Nov. 8). As a result of compromise, the Navy's demand for an additional budgetary outlay of 122,400,000 yen ($60,000,000) was clipped, and a five-year building program substituted during which the following ships will glide down the ways: four 10,000-ton cruisers; sixteen 1,700-ton destroyers, one 2,000-ton submarine; four 1,700-ton submarines; and three river gunboats...
...When jingoist Arthur Brisbane was screaming "WAR SURE!" in the biggest type which Mr. Hearst's New York Journal could produce, there was a spunky young Assistant Secretary of the Navy at Washington who demanded that the U. S. fleet put on its fighting clothes. Then the Maine exploded like a bad dream; war came. The fleet was ready for Santiago and Manila; the Assistant Secretary became a Rough Rider. After that he became innumerable things- among them, President...
Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski left Warsaw a fortnight ago, ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain...