Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pandemonium broke out. Half a dozen Senators asked to be recognized at once. Others ran between Mr. Ernst and Mr. Glares to prevent a forcible encounter. A point of order took Mr. Ernst off the floor, but it developed he had not meant Mr. Glass, as Mr. Glass had feared, but Mr. Couzens, a transcript of whose remarks he had just obtained and comprehended...
...Asia assumes dangerous significance. Raw material must be had; and with the supply to severely limited, conflict is inevitable. As Africa was dominant among the powerful economic causes of the last war. China will be the prize in the next--if men permit another such confiagration. And who shall prevent the outbreak, with Russia and Japan pitted against the four great powers of Europe? America's ostensibly disinterested policy in the Far East would necessarily be given up in favor either of frank imperialism or of total abandonment of China. With strong economic interests already involved, withdrawal is far from...
Economic conflict is inevitable, and none but the keenest foresight can prevent the nations' resorting to arms. If England rejects organizations for peace in favor of organization for war, war she will have, and all the world with her; for adoption of Mr. Chamberlain's proposal, will mean the re-establishment of that notoriously delicate balance of power...
...what was known of his conversations with Premier Edouard Herriot, he admitted that British interest was bound up with the preservation of the Franco-German boundary, by which he meant that Britain could not tolerate an unfriendly Power in possession of the Channel ports and the obvious place to prevent an unfriendly Power from seizing those ports is along the Franco-German frontier...
Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain began to outline his policy and stated that it was desirable, in order to prevent Europe from splitting into two armed camps, that Germany should become a party to the proposed treaty of security (see INTERNATIONAL). But when he referred to a secret document that he had received from Germany, the irrepressible Clydesider, "Dave" Kirkwood,* shouted: "Wot abaht the Red letter?"-a reference to the Zinoviev letter which aided the Conservatives in the last election (TIME...