Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for a man to support armed intervention in Mexico, and be a pronounced and innocuous pacifist in the World War, and yet be consistent in his own eyes and these of his followers. He may denounce the people who were blown up in the Lusitania, and condone those who blow them up; may weaken, by hostile notion, aggressive designs on Germany after the declaration of war; may make wartime service to one's country a political liability; may do infinite harm, by harsh criticism and stubborn blocking, to both Democratic and Republican administrations alike; yet find himself, by almost...
Will the war-sick world leave this horrible legacy to the future? Or has German psychology made its last great mistake by underestimating the vitality of the Allied peoples? Have we forgotten Belgium? Is the Lusitania a shadow memory only...