Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because bitter experience of a generation is not inherited, patriotism will live on. Individuals cannot resist the call of martial trumpets. Patriotism cannot be outlawed, but war can through the patient efforts of skillful unselfish diplomats using the facts of economic interdependance for their operations...
...President retreated to his car, Front Soldiers seized the off side mudguards, jounced Herr Tonisson severely, nearly turned his car over before police interfered. Next day, pale with fury, the President summoned his Cabinet at Reval on the Baltic. Declaring Estonian democracy "menaced," the Cabinet put Dorpat under martial law, dismissed half the town's police force as tainted with Front Soldier ideology...
...against militarism is of great importance. No class of people is more aware of the obvious absurdity of military force, as an instrument of national policy, than students who are studying the effects of the last war. If they can train their emotional reactions sufficiently well to resist the "martial spirit" of some future date, they will do a tremendous service to mankind. Continuous pledges against war may not always be effectual, but they help...
...mines for German failure to meet Reparations payments. Albert Leo Schlageter and his friends went to work. Railroad bridges were bombed, canal locks smashed, dams destroyed-the French got little benefit from their seized coal. On May 8 Schlageter and several associates were caught and tried by French court-martial. Despite Berlin protests, on May 28 he was shot dead by French soldiers...
...race. They will have no traffic with the exploded efficacy of war as a way to end ware. They have read too much recent history and lived too much in the midst of it to believe so easily in either the efficacious or the virtues of the martial spirit. It may be true, as it is often said, that were the bands to begin to play, and the flags to wave, for all the anti-war meetings and resolutions, they would be there, and willingly. But I rather think not. For this revolt against the cliches and conventions connected with...