Word: quos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Ministers signed a Treaty of Friendship & Neutrality, amazing in view of the extreme bitterness of the Graeco-Turkish War (1921-23), followed by the expulsion from Turkey of 1,400,000 Greeks. A second treaty was also signed pledging Greece and Turkey to maintain the present status quo of their naval strengths...
...history of man is pock marked with revolutions. Wars are often the result of faulty diplomacy, but revolutions rise from a violation of principles. A handful of men set themselves as the defenders of the status quo; another handful, the men of convictions, oppose them; and there are always the followers of both camps, the people who make revolution a more inspiring, more honest thing than war. And there are always, too, soldiers of fortune who seek only excitement, who, regardless of issues, fight for either side, and who shift their loyalty with easy convenience. Human strife carries with...
...please the drys. In the Era of Prosperity which carried Republican Mr. Coolidge to his second term as president of the United States and equally Republican Mr. Hoover to his first, it was very easy for the Republicans to run on platforms which "guaranteed" merely continuance of the status quo...
...Treviranus was informed . . . that changes might be made in the present status quo of Europe. ... It proved sufficient to inspire insane hopes in Dr. Treviranus' German head...
...that our German brothers and sisters on the Saar, to whom we in this hour give a pledge of our gratitude for their loyal attitude, will soon be reunited with us." (Administered by the League today, the Saar will decide by plebiscite in 1935 whether to continue in status quo, unite with France or unite with Germany...