Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that have marked the brief career of the German Republic, that of Sunday was most significant. Two facts stand out in the news of an overwhelming liberal victory: first, that the chauvinist Nationalist party, with its semi monarchical leanings and its vengeful grinding of teeth is unsatisfactory to the nation: second, that Germany is willing to go beyond a mere chiding of its die hard by militarists by supporting the pacifistic and conciliatory policies of Foreign Minister Sudesmann...
...formal statement he said: "Under the leadership of President Coolidge, the record of the Republican Party has been such as to entitle it to the confidence of the nation. It enjoys that confidence, but the people will unquestionably give us a new grant of power if they are satisfied that the policies, principles and wise administrative practices which have given economy and efficiency in government, and brought prosperity and contentment to the people, are to be continued...
...breadth of mind. In almost all the cases discussed, even in those arising from the famous Sacco-Vanzetti and Bimba trials, he finds that civil liberties were invaded by the powers that be. But Prof. Chafee, because he does not display the obvious prejudice of such journals as "The Nation," is very convincing. Prof. Chafee is a conservative, but he does not approve of the methods used by many conservatives in protecting the existing order from the onsloughts of radicalism. He avoids the partisan extremes of both the Watch and Ward Society and the Sacco-Vanzetti defense Committee...
...author's intent. "Oliver Cromwell," he says in closing, "had set out with the high profession that he would save the parliamentary liberties of Englishmen. That was his theory. In practice he never once allowed England to elect a free Parliament, and his only permanent legacy to the nation was a standing army. A fact like that cannot be fitly explained by the mere historian. It is a subject for a writer of great tragedy--or farcical comedy...
...would appear, then, that the United States should place some balancing reservations in the scales. The demands of both sides, even, if the Kellogg plan does not go through, should be crystallized for the benefit of future negotiation. Neither the United States nor any European nation will enter such a treaty blindfold, and the bandage might as well be removed now as later...