Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the conference meets, to decide upon a revision of the terms of the Washington Conference, little can be accomplished without a clear understanding on the part of each nation of the existing situation. Considerable water has passed under the bridge since 1921, Mussolini has rejuvenated Italy; the Sovist Republic has, under Stalin, become nationally-minded; of the three statesmen, Briand, Streseman and Macdonald, who were believed capable of achieving a millennium of peace in Europe, two have died, and the third has fallen a victim to his ideology; with every year, Japan has become more militaristically inclined; and Hitler...
...oncoming civilization. Certainly there was something that was noble in the Indians' struggle, and Miss Sears has an inkling of it, but she has been so carried away by this small inkling that she has turned the whole war into an idealistic struggle against fate waged by a nation of sentimental philosophers...
...deed, the Administration was ready to help the industry to its feet again. Chief causes of the Administration's lasting embarrassment were the interred or incinerated remains of 13 military flyers who died when the Army, on notice too short for proper preparation, was given the nation's airmail to fly. A secondary cause was the charge, pooh-poohed by the Administration but still repeated by many onlookers, that the blow was struck unfairly, before hearing all the defendants' stories, and struck at the wrong target. If airmail carriers had played a crooked game with President Hoover...
...Trebitsch-Lincoln proudly recounts that he was a spy for both sides. But when England tried and convicted him it was for forgery. In 1920 he was again a censor, this time in Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere unwelcome, Trebitsch-Lincoln looked eastward upon Buddhism, saw that it was good. He entered a monastery near Peiping, took the name Chao Kung, had his hair clipped and the twelve circular brands of the Buddhist wheel of life burned into his bullet pate. Two years ago he returned...
...exception is the textbook used in the course, Hockett. A great deal of the evil of having a poor textbook is, however, removed by the thoroughness of Professor Merk's lectures. With this one exception, History 5a accomplishes in very commendable fashion its task of racing through the nation's history...