Word: militariste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenor of the new Socialist Workers' Internationale is anti-Bolshevik and antiFascist. It looks with disfavor upon the national movement in Germany; it censors the militarist and imperialist proclivities of the French; it denounces the "selfish diplomatic policy " of Britain...
...assumed that even the most militant among us, not excepting General Edwards, devotedly desires peace for his country. The only question upon which pacifist and militarist reasonably may differ is as to what is most likely to maintain peace, or, conversely least likely to increase the hazard...
...other hand the great war breeders of history have been the nations who (I use the words of the militarists) prepared for peace by preparing against war. Tiny Switzerland is not a convincing analogy. Germany is the conspicuous recent example, but there are plenty of others. Japan, for instance, lived many centuries in external peace, but, since acquiring the "protection" of a modern army and a militarist frame of mind, has engaged in three foreign wars since 1894. Men die and a nation suffers in a war of aggression, even a winning war, just as surely...
...keep the country out of war. Countries armed to the teeth and with a conscious sense of military power are apt to be less fertile in finding and interested in following expedients for peace, even these whose seeking could bring only honor. Neither General Edwards nor any other militarist can point to the time when the United States has dishonored itself by endeavoring to preserve peace, although the press and the propagandists of many past cras have blazoned for war on what then seemed to them the best of grounds. "Fifty-four forty or fight" thrilled thousands in the forties...
...this nation and of all nations may honorably be maintained. It is a noble pursuit and in the long run far better for this country and the world than the more alluring oratory of war. It is, moreover, founded on courage and hope, while the exhortations of the militarist are those of timidity and despair. WILLARD B. LUTRER 1905 L. March...