Word: militarist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier paused for breath ears strained for the expected denunciation of Germany as War guilty. It did not come. M. Poincare, the militarist who sent French bayonets to occupy the Saar, is now, it seems, preoccupied with saving the franc. Having affirmed his War innocence, Premier Poincare was content to change the subject...
Dictator Kondylis of Greece, a typically, hard-boiled militarist whose agents have resorted more than once to poisoning to gain his ends, announced himself greatly troubled last week by aspersions publicly cast in his direction that he is playing politics. Pinked upon this nice point of military honor, General Kondylis forthwith dissolved the minute political party of which he was nominally the head, relaxed not one iota his dictatorial powers...
...occasion of this distinctly militarist demonstration was "Army and Navy Honor Day," recently concocted by German monarchists as an excuse for staging impressive ceremonies to keep alive Imperial fervor...
Ludendorff's Complaint. Unsettled by these developments, famed militarist-Fascist-reactionary General Erich von Ludendorff contributed an article to the ultra-Fascist Deutsche Wochenschau last week in which he bitterly declared: "The War-distress of Germans does not seem to have been sufficiently great, or to have lasted long enough. The German people do not seem to be clever enough as yet to arise and fulfill their destiny. There is spreading among Germans a spineless nonresistance to the Anglo-U. S. scheme for a pan-Dawes Europe in which Germany and perhaps France seem destined to the status...
...maintains his enormous sphere of influence over Central China as the somewhat distrusted exponent of the old and vanished Chinese aristocracy. A cunning general, he is perhaps the most suavely mannered and custom abiding militarist in a country where law and order have long since conspicuously vanished...