Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constructive program. After a of growing-pains, England was looking for fresh shapes into which to crystallize its future. The Labor party made itself the champion of change, while the Tories kept to their tradition of motionless progress. The unhappy Liberals, wracked by the conflict between activity to maintain the society which their reforming zeal had created and desire to remain in the van of "forward-lookers," have, relying on their tradition of laissez-faire, opposed the quasi-Socialism of the Laborites, and thrown in their fate with the Conservatives. The negative program of Liberalism, in accomplishing itself, has destroyed...
...does not seem possible that Mussolini can long maintain his strength by such extra-constitutional means. To justify his methods he has brought forth a succession of bug-bears which he pointed to as the reason and the justification of his violent tactics. But each scare must of necessity be greater than the previous one, or it will fall flat. The supply of scares is limited, and so is the gullibility of the masses. By their exuberant methods the Fascisti have convinced the rest of the people as well as themselves that violence is the natural instead of the exceptional...
...abivairous custom of giving free fool and stirred to every weary pilgrim. It is said that the threadbare monks are stirred by the affluent cars and apparel of their humble guests to set up a hotel under a skilled extartioner; and that voluntary contributions have not sufficed to maintain the momstery. But the often fleeced American traveler is likely to suspect that the monks have found that the "Dine and Dance" electric flasher attracts the crowds more strongly than barrels of saints' rings and martyrs' knuckles...
...manifesto ends: "In conclusion, I [Stanley Baldwin] would appeal to you to help to secure for the country, in this difficult and anxious time, a strong and stable Government, based on an independent majority in Parliament, resolved to maintain the existing constitutional and economic liberties under which Britain has grown great and prosperous, and empowered to solve on practical and common-sense lines the urgent industrial and social problems of the day. ... I appeal, therefore, to all men and women who desire stable government to support the broad and national policy that I have outlined and to ensure the return...
...Japan. Roosevelt always had a strong respect for Japanese grit and strength. He would have been the last to propose a showy demonstration which cannot fail to react against the pro-American party in Japan, which, with little cooperation from this side of the Pacific, is striving to maintain the entente cordiale...