Word: militarist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lavedan. The play was first produced in Paris in 1913 at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and, with the foremost of modern French actors, M. Guitry, in the chief role, scored a great success. It was written during the trouble between France and Morocco, and shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was written a full year before the outbreak of the present European war, the author foresaw the trend of events, and the play ends with the declaration of war between France and Germany. It will...
...militarist fever seems to be sweeping over professors and students alike in this University to an unprecedented degree. The Harvard Regiment, the Military Lectures, the many letters in the University press are but instances. When, however, President Fitch, one of the spiritual leaders of the Harvard men, publishes in the Bulletin a letter, vehemently attacking the ideal of "peace as an end in itself" as "A dangerous and essentially degenerative doctrine," it becomes right that mere students, otherwise undesirous of publicity, should speak their minds...
...beginning of this war Americans felt that it was the price of the Balance of Power theory and the militarist policy of Europe in general and Prussia in particular. American ideals were not at all on that European plane, and yet today we see statesmen, business men and University leaders in full retreat for that precise European method of force, of piled up armaments and of an international power-magazine liable to instant explosion at the first spark. For America to resort to such European methods is to confess openly, as Lord Roseberry sees, that American aims and standards...
...Cornell Conference on International Relations which begins today offers courses of lectures which should broaden and deepen the view of any man, pacifist or militarist, in regard to the most fundamental and far-reaching problems of our times. The predominant tone of the Conference will be anti-militarist; but Congressman Gardner and General Wood will be present to give their views in favor of preparedness. It is the duty of men of all shades of opinion to acquire the greatest possible insight into the ideas of the thinkers who are giving all their time and energy to working...
...statement that "we know as certainly as we know anything that the language of big guns alone is able to command respect for any nation." Does Germany, the country of big guns, command the respect of the world? It was not so long ago that an even more cynical militarist, Napoleon, made a similar statement, "God is on the side of the heaviest artillery...