Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...noteworthy that those who are proclaiming against the injustice of the new taxes are willing enough that young men go forth to die for the cause of the nation. Such young men are making a sacrifice beyond which man in all his generosity...
...nation we are united in knowing that billions, (an inconceivable amount), must be spent for war. We are ready to rasie the money by taxes. Yet when those taxes bear home, and we are threatened with being compelled to pay our share in dollars of this inconceivable billions, war expenditures become painful and terrible...
...Marshal has himself said, America in welcoming him is not welcoming an individual, but a nation. We pay all honor to Joffre because in him we see France, that splendid nation which, for the existence of her life and her republican ideals, has fought a great fight against the terrible power of Germany. Joffre is the representative of that people which our people honors with all dignity, as one strong man honors another...
...From an economic point of view, the trained minds of college men should be used for developing the nation's resources in time of war. The colleges should send their share of men to the trenches as privates and officers, but as modern warfare consists chiefly in the efforts of one nation to organize itself, make itself more efficient internally and more productive of munitions and necessities of modern warfare than other nations, it is necessary for the educated men to assume responsibility for this efficient organization...
...military preparedness which we so direly needed, the East, with lordly superiority, assumed to tell the West and the Middle West how much broader was its vision and how much deeper was its patriotism. Now that war editorials in the Eastern city papers have taken second place in the nation's war plans to the demand for men, and pretty words have lost, like the problematical salt, their savor, the West and the Middle West are citing their larger contributions in men to our fighting forces as proof of their true and actual patriotism...