Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington. President Herbert Hoover well knows that few U. S. citizens will agree to any program which would leave the country without sure defense. Therefore he postulated to the nation in a radio speech last week that he stands for "adequate preparedness ... as one of the assurances of peace...
...Spring the French and their Continental allies put through with the con sent of the then Conservative British Government a resolution providing in effect that the Preparatory Disarmament Commission should not seek or even con sider ways of limiting either war mate rials held in peacetime readiness by a nation or the number of its trained re serves. Since the military might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last week...
...passion for well-rounded education is such that we are in danger of manufacturing a nation of billiard balls...
...Palazzo Venezia at Rome last week and furiously applauded Dictator Mussolini as he uttered more than honeyed words. "It is the simple truth," cried Il Duce, as he launched into his oration, "that the hierarchy of our Party is composed of honest men who deserve the esteem of the nation...
There was also a report that Lord d'Abernon had arranged for a $200,000,000 private British loan to the Argentine Government for road building purposes. Both La Prensa and equally famed La Nation were skeptical of the constitutional right of Argentina's fanatically secretive President Hipolito Irigoyen to sign rich, special agreements without consulting the Argentine Congress. "Even members of the President's Cabinet," said La Nation indignantly, "knew absolutely nothing of what was afoot...