Word: militariste
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...Athens, Foreign Minister Rouplos formally denied the existence of any such pact. However "President" (Dictator) Pangalos of Greece is an avowed arch-militarist and is known to be purchasing warships and arms to the utmost limit of the nation's credit...
Finally, a sensation was created when the notorious ultra-reactionary militarist, Captain Ehrhardt, was observed to be strolling about the lobbies of the Reichstag and conferring privately with the leaders of the Voelkische, the extreme-Right Ludendorff faction. Captain Ehrhardt not only led the famed Kapp Putsch, which attempted to overthrow the German Republic in March, 1920, but was so implicated in the assassination of the Ministers Erzberger and Rathenau that he was forced to flee from Germany until the passing of last year's amnesty law. Pressmen eagerly touted his appearance as a sign that his old adherents...
...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...