Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nation A slaps Nation B, then B must slap A before A and B can patch up their quarrel without loss of honor...
...each nation of the continent a friendly nation and each of the same age, friendly and equal States of a great continent in which great nations progress along an even line as a group of friends as friendly, or more so, than brothers with similar ideals, which lead in new directions to new purposed, all close together and all at equal levels...
...every offense, for every act of violence, a legitimate reparation should be forthcoming when the dignity and the sovereignty of a nation have been outraged. It does not seem possible that any country of the world would have stood for the humiliation and the affront and torn down its flag to have it replaced by the banner of arbitration...
Presently the British Minister, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, arrived at Nanking and signed with Dr. Wang a treaty granting de jure recognition of the Nationalist regime by His Majesty's Government, and according to Great Britain, "most favored nation" status under the new Chinese Tariff Law, effective...
Alexandra's unpopularity, if such indeed it was, steadily increased. Her constant advice to the tsar was that he show himself man and ruler by adamantine autocracy. Her constant offering to the nation was daughter after daughter, and never an heir to the throne. Troubled by this her failing, she resorted to mystic seances (Princess Radziwill includes table-tipping, which the Baroness denies) conducted by a smooth character who turned out to be ex-jailbird and Parisian hairdresser. This Philippe prophesied a son; the Empress believed herself with child; a date was publicly announced, and excitement ran high...