Word: pax
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...unstable Ulster aristocrat whose favorite costume (pink hunting coat and riding boots) made him a figure in Parliament. Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822, he stiffened the Grand Alliance that defeated Napoleon. At the Congress of Vienna, which laid the foundations for a hundred years of Pax Britannica, he put on a classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following the Napoleonic wars, the neglected veterans of Waterloo...
They Cried for Peace. Always, in Communist whimsy and in hard-boiled oration, the dove cried "peace." In eight languages the signs on East Berlin buildings proclaimed: "Peace, Pax, Paix, Paz, Pace, Frieden, Béke, Mir." There were peace days, peace weeks, peace bicycle races, peace dances, peace cigarettes. Japanese could buy a sedative called the Sleep of Peace and enjoy it on a Peace mattress...
...have not the capability of imposing a pax Americana upon the world. More important, we have not the desire. Our motive is neither to impose our will upon the world, nor to turn our backs upon it and retreat to our own frontiers. Either course would be folly. Either course would strip us of friends and allies at the moment in American history when, more than any other, we need friends and allies. Our aim is to keep the free world big. There are practical and hardheaded reasons for this. Nearly twice as many people inhabit non-Soviet Europe...
...conquest, and that it was time to squat on the carpet of diplomacy and consolidate the great adventure into a great state. Accordingly, the Sultan struck alliances with France and Venice, reorganized the legal code, expanded the educational system, opened his borders to European immigration, and announced the pax Turcica...
...pax was ably defended by a small, deadly force of janissaries (most of them Christian children, adopted by the state, and trained in fanatical devotion to the Sultan) and by the new Turkish fleet. Under a pair of swashbuckling corsairs, Khair-ad-Din Barbarossa and Dragut, the Mediterranean was swept clean, for more than a century, of European fleets...