Word: militariste
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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...