Word: militaristic
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Eliminating the usual discordant elements common to politics the world over, Baron Kato, although not popular in Tokyo, is highly respected both at home and abroad. As a militarist, he is not of the sabre-rattling variety; his shrewdness and sagacity at the Washington Conference proved his attachment to the cause of Peace, in spite of his love for the navy...
...Tuchun of the Yangtzi Valley. Owes all his power to steel and smoke. He was the military sponsor of the Peking Government. It is suggested that General Wu has been bought off by Marshal Tsao-Kun, which would explain his non-partisan attitude in the recent militarist coup in Peking...
...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...
...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...