Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vain hope. To whatever measures France is obliged to resort in order to complete her reconstruction, she will never imitate Germany. France is a rich country, in full prosperity, and will find her way out of the present financial difficulties. The urgent thing to be done now is to prevent the people at home and abroad from speculating on those difficulties...
Under the calm exterior, burning fires have been fanned to white heat. It is common knowledge that President Millerand and Premier Poincare are not on friendly terms, although their official positions prevent a complete break. The Radicals, who to a large extent control the Senate, and who are not to be despised in the Chamber of Deputies, are violently opposed to Poincaré's German policy. The Royalists, although backing Poincaré, believe that the Premier has not gone far enough. And there is some discontent among the Republicans. These broadly stated facts are symptomatic of the concealed...
England's splendid isolation is gone. The sea and the British fleet cannot prevent hostile attacks from the air. To meet this situation, so alarming to a country which has not suffered an invasion for nearly 900 years, the Air Ministry has formulated defensive plans far exceeding in scope anything attempted during the War. Huge airdromes, numbers of air squadrons will line the entire coast. London will be protected by a complete loop of such defenses, and the industrial districts will be similarly protected. These plans call for 52 well equipped squadrons within four years. If a Labor Ministry...
...worthy means to prevent future war we heartily support. Believing that if the students of America will refuse to participate in war, the attention of the country will be so focussed upon the question that it will be difficult for statesmen to lead us into another war, we take this stand. Since such schemes as the Bok Peace Plan are favored by the majority at the present, we believe that more energy should be devoted to their fulfillment, and we go further in the hope that a decisive attitude honestly held may supplement less extreme methods. CLARENOR R. BROOKS...
...opinion was in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, that the presence of the U. S. warship would prevent hostilities, which it was thought might have been precipitated by Nicaraguan sympathizers with the insurrectionists...