Word: militarist
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...stupendous inability to chart their own course. For the essentials of their propaganda are capable of no other interpretation, and that propaganda they have brewed with uncommon energy and ability, leaving no page in the book of mob inflammation unturned, no trick in the militarist deck unplayed. M. Daladier has been an apt pupil, and the guerre de revanche, seemingly moribund, has blossomed beneath his hand. The great obstacle is economic expediency, but Lloyd's are willing to wager at three to one odds that the French and German foreign offices can achieve the decisive calorie which will boil this...
...island. "Homer," remarked the Emperor Alexander smugly, was a "very good architect, besides his other excellencies." There is more to the story, very dryly told by Plutarch. This morning at eleven Professor Jackson will lecture on Homer from a point of view somewhat more aesthetic than that of the militarist, Alexander...
Editor Laurence Stallings, one-legged Marine, novelist (Plumes), playwright (What Price Glory);, scenarioist (The Big Parade), spent three years mulling over thousands of War pictures from every available source to make his selections. Says he: "A militarist will be disappointed with them for there are not enough pictures of guns and tactical groups. A pacifist will not find enough horror. . . . Here is the camera record of chaos." There is no running text. Editor Stallings' captions are terse, provocative, sometimes sarcastic. He quotes freely from Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger and Kipling. One could wish for far more detail with each...
Count Uchida is not and never has been a roaring militarist. In internal politics he is known as a great conciliator. Time & again he has been pushed into important offices because of his ability to smooth things over. A graduate of the Tokyo Imperial University, he was Ambassador to Washington from 1909 to 1911, Ambassador to Russia during the World War. In two separate Japanese crises he became temporary Prime Minister. He was created successively a Baron, Viscount and Count and served on the Privy Council from 1924 to 1929. In 1928 he signed the Briand-Kellogg pact for Japan...
...Kingly Way." Defiant too was General Nobuyoshi Muto last week as he left Tokyo to take up his duties as Supreme-Military Commander in Manchuria and Ambassador on Special Mission to the puppet state of Manchoukuo. He baldly shouted his militarist creed...