Word: militarist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled that M. Liaptcheff, although not a Militarist, took an active part in the prosecution of the so-called "First Balkan War" (1912-1913), and signed the Treaty of London, which ended that struggle and freed Bulgaria from Turkey. He was also one of the signers of the Armistice at Saloniki in 1918, and has twice served as Minister of Finance, once in the War Cabinet of M. Radoslavov...
...Peace Conference, "on account of his advanced age." (He was then 70.) 4) 1920-Appeared in the Allies list of "War Criminals". 5) 1920-25-Inveterate Monarchist protagonist. On the 10th anniversary of the War, delivered a fiery oration in which he stood forth as a confirmed militarist...
Those who fear the advent of a militarist of the old school must remember that the powers of Germany's president are so limited that even if this were a great national attempt to throw off the Allied yoke, it could result in nothing but failure. Von Hindenburg is too much of a political realist not to see that submission is the only salvation of Germany. He will adhere more closely to the Versailles Treaty than Europe half realizes...
...civilians who perished because of it, the 5,000,000 widows who survive it, the 9,000,000 orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons, our daughters, our business, our security...
Samuel Gompers, famed U. S. Laborite: "The world gained as a result of the Great War a freedom from the menace of organized militarist imperialism without which all peoples sooner or later would have been enchained in bondage and vassalage. Democracy is in the ascendancy, thai dominant form of government. The tremendous meaning of that achievement will be more understood as time passes. The victory was magnificent, the cause worthy of all that we gave and more...