Word: militariste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was enough for headline writers, for rewrite men clever at jazzing copy, for editors honest but forced to conclude that Benito Mussolini had confessed at last to militarist, imperial ambitions scarcely expressed more recklessly by Wilhelm II as Kaiser and All Highest War Lord...
Premier Raymond Poincaré, ever an arch militarist, took full advantage of last week's war scare in the Belgian Parliament (see INTERNATIONAL) to trumpet through the inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments. While this propaganda was at its height, he announced to the Chamber that the first important measure to be presented by the Cabinet during the present session (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.) will be a bill appropriating several billion francs for armaments and fortification of the Franco-German and Franco-Italian frontiers. Marshal Foch, appearing before the Chamber in full uniform, declared...
...With Big Militarist Carmona away, the little militarists began to play with guns. For 56 hours these insurgents** at Lisbon skirmished with the Government troops, and at one time seized the Ministry of War. Then, their leader, Colonel Mendes Reis, was sniped, and the insurrection became disorganized...
...October 10th, the problem of unification has been a thorn in the flesh of patriotic Chinese. China has been divided laterally by the Progressive and Conservative factions, sectionally by rival generals, each with his sphere of influence, his private ambitions, and his protestations of 'loyalty to the Constitution'. Each militarist has made the national chaos an excuse for 'punitive expeditions' against his opponents, while foreign powers have seen in China's disorder a sound reason for declining to treat her as an equal in the family of nations...
...obliging, conjured together a ministry of professional statesmen. The new Government represents militarist-torn China in much the same way that a sea captain whose crew have mutinied and are fighting amongst themselves represents the cringing passengers locked below decks...