Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishment of the new nation in a prosperous and settled career probably demands stern repressive measures when the population is so lacking in inner harmony. Obviously it is impossible for every group of nationals irrespective of size to set up its own government. Nevertheless the Croats, who are the most strenuously malcontent, must feel that the establishment of the new state was merely an exchange of alien governors. It will be a tribute to the Serbians and the progress of humanity in general towards liberalism if the-rule of the Hapsburgs, does not rise in retrospect to the dignity...
...regard to the last paragraph wherein he speaks of "an acute feeling of inferiority,'' I wonder if he is trying to imitate Will Rogers, he is SO amusing! The editors of TIME are Americans, and since when have citizens of a victorious nation ever had "an acute feeling of inferiority" when considering soldiers of a vanquished army...
First, to convert Rumania into a democracy of authentic, Anglo-Saxon stamp, retaining constitutional monarchy. Second, to accord to Rumania's national minorities a just and lawful share in government, whereas they have been exploited and oppressed. Third to debureaucratize and decentralize the Government, granting more authority to provinces and municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate...
While these promises will take at least a decade to perform, they are the most hopeful words officially spoken in Rumania since the War. They show, moreover, that the whole nation is solid in support of Boy King Mihai-or as Queen Marie calls him "Our Tender and Lovely Hope" (TIME, Nov. 26). Appropriately enough last week, King Mihai ignored his Parliament and played with trains-real trains. One locomotive with which he played was the first full-sized freight engine to be built entirely in Rumania. On the day after Parliament opened His Majesty was lifted into...
...spider of the Escurial. Both were masters of dissimulation and lovers of delay; but the leaden foot of Philip was the symptom of a dying organism, while Elizabeth temporized for the contrary reason-because vitality can afford to wait. The fierce old hen sat still, brooding over the English nation, whose pullulating energies were coming swiftly to ripeness and unity under her wings. She sat still; but every feather bristled; she was tremendously alive...