Word: kenan
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Anatole France, poet and philosopher, sounded the call of the opposition to the Government, although confining himself to damning the Treaty of Versailles. Speaking of the nineteenth century philosopher Renan, whose centenary has just been celebrated, M. France said that " he (Kenan) would have been shocked to see that so cruel a war was followed by a treaty which does not end it, which is nothing but the organization of disorder, hatred, discord and poverty in unfortunate Europe." Coming at such a time it is a deftly veiled disapproval of Poincare's policy in the Ruhr, but not too deft...