Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this purpose a young man is needed. In Senator Moses's opinion, Mr. Hoover is the only outstanding man young enough...
Disarmament. The feature of the week was French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand's bid for a new peace compact. In his opinion, everybody is trying to go further in the matter of disarmament than the present stags and temper of European politics will permit. He drew attention to the fact that the Third Commission of the Assembly, which had been studying the problem, has been snowed under by con- flicting compacts, resolutions and covenants. He suggested, there- fore, that the Commission should remain at work doing nothing more than preparing a program for the Preparatory Disarmament commission...
...sabre duels. As the problem at issue really involves the practice of the Rumanians of virtually confiscating without payment the property of Hungarians, in accordance with the Rumanian Agrarian Reform but contrary to the peace treaty and to the minorities treaty, the venerable Magyar aristocrat pressed for an advisory opinion from the World Court...
Then, assuming his psychic powers-an alleged natural gift in which he takes great pride-he predicted dire war: "I am even certain that many of those powers talking about disarmament do so in order to inspire greater confidence, thus disguising their purposes. According to my opinion, we shall go through another and more awful war at the latest in 1937, a war which will last only a few days and possibly only a few hours...
History alone can determine the full significance of this act; opinion may condemn it as politically immoral. The document was signed, critics agree, not by a kingly king but by a puppet of the Dictator. Moreover, it was signed on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the suppression of the constitution and the virtual abolition of the Cortes (Parliament) (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). In its implications it is clearly designed to perpetuate the Primo de Rivera régime...