Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press that the Russians always spoil every conference anyway, just as soon as it gets nicely going, and so the people must not expect too much of the conference at Geneva. France has also taken steps to keep her people from the conviction that she herself is the militaristic nation and the German and Russian orges are the real peacemakers. Foreign Minister Briand talked with Ambassador Loudon of Holland, who is to preside at the conference, and it is believed that Briand requested Loudon to check with his gavel any long speeches by Litvinoff that would quote statistics...
...buttress to the banking strength of the nation is the McFadden act, whose principal paragraph is the permission granted to national banks to maintain branches. Last week Comptroller of the Currency J. W. Mclntosh announced that national bank resources equalled $27,213,824,000-the largest amount reported on record. This was due, said Mr. Mclntosh, to the McFadden...
Analyzing the upheavals in China as the inevitable result of the awakening of a national consciousness among the young Chinese, and an effort to throw off feudal bonds, Dr.J. Leighton Stuart, president of Yenching University, said before the Liberal Club last Saturday that the only hope for China was a preservation among the students of a confidence in the possibility of ultimate deliverence of their nation...
...Some American business men", continued Dr. Stuart, "foolishly urge upon the American government armed intervention in China. If armed interference were attempted by any nation, the students would at once lead a popular uprising. The one thing that has no force in China today is force...
...Briefly stated," Professor Kennelly said, "the purpose of the conference was to define the sovereign radio rights of the nations represented, and to agree upon a schedule of wave lengths such that no nation would interfere with the radio operations of any other power...