Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson was devoured by the desire for power. If he had been a soldier and a man of fighting temperament, the Government of the United States would have been in grave danger. He was obstinate and up to a certain point determined, but he was not a fighting man and he never could have led..an army or controlled those who would have led it for him, as was done by a very inferior type of man of the Third Napoleon. When it came to actual conflict he lacked nerve and daring, although with his temperament I doubt...
Article IV (presumably with Britain and Italy especially mind) supplements Article II in defining the circumstances in which action shall be taken against a treaty-violating power. Heavy emphasis is laid upon the principle that advisement shall first be taken if possible with the Council of the League. But in the event of a sudden "flagrant" hostile act, such as a rush by Germany or France upon the Rhineland, each guaranteeing power "undertakes immediately to come to the help of the party against whom such a violation or breach has been directed as soon as the said power has been...
While still in his teens he commenced to build up the great chain of establishments trading between Italy and the Near East, which have given him wealth, power and the opportunity to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. His rise to diplomatic prominence cama when Premier Giolitti called upon him, as an authority in Near Eastern affairs, to negotiate the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). And since then his success as Governor of Tripoli, and later as Finance Minister, has endeared him greatly to the House of Savoy and set him high...
Events in China which have been cloaked in obscurity for some months took on an intelligible significance last week. Two happenings of major interest: 1) the Nine-Power Customs Conference* assembled at Peking, seat of the present weak Chinese National Government; 2) the great warlord, or "Super-Tuchun," Wu Pei-fu, emerged from an enforced retirement and appeared at Hankow as "Commander-in-Chief of the Central Provinces"-an alliance which he has apparently patched up by intrigue and which he claims leagues about him "14 of China's 18 provinces...
...Military Situation. Super-Tuchun Wu, on resurrecting his power, has already driven his old enemy, Super-Tuchun Chang, "Manchurian Warlord," out of the positions which the latter has held for months at and near Shanghai. The actual capture of Shanghai was accomplished last week by General Sun Chuan-Fang, acting for Super-Tuchun...