Word: militarists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations & British Might as twins, millions of the King's subjects joined sincerely and without hypocrisy because honest Stanley Baldwin, while asking a cool billion for weapons, also told them on the radio last week: "I think you know me well enough now to know I am no militarist, and you can safely trust...
...horrors as such there is something very gratifying in reading this grim, well-told, and certainly convincing piece of military muckraking while, after the usual marches and counter-marches, stray buglers of the Junior American Legion Band gather under windows and drive all peaceable citizens into an anti-militarist frenzy. This was the reviewer's experience, and it no doubt gave "Paths of Glory" its maximum effect...
General Sadao Araki is Japan's champion sabre-rattler and No. 1 Militarist, but Japanese like to point out in his favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last...
Denys P. Myers, Director of the World Peace Foundation, representing the pacifist and League of Nations side of the question tops the list of speakers announced by the Liberal Club, the National Students League, and the Students League for Industrial Democracy, sponsors of the Peace Conference. The militarist view of the prospects for peace will be expounded by Colonel Oliver L. Spaulding, Jr., professor of Military Science and Tactics, and head of the R.O.T.C. unit at Harvard, which was the target for much of the criticism of the pacifists...
...were desperately needed during the evenings I still have enough confidence in Harvard to believe that the money would be supplied without robbing any other department. Longer hours would be a convenience but no more. To an impartial judge, neither a communistic member of the Liberal Club nor a militarist, it would seem a very costly convenience if it required doing away with preparation for self-defense as carried on at Harvard. Don't misunderstand me. If it were a question of maintaining the military and naval courses or of keeping the library open a reasonable length of time...