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Word: righte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations. Wrote he to the London Times: "It is evident that a state which offers to renounce all but defensive wars (and that is what the American proposal means, despite its, in appearance, unqualified condemnation of war) renounces nothing at all so long as it retains the right to define when it is fighting a defensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Barb and Weasel | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...matter how unequivocal this statement may appear, it is actually a statesman's weasel, as appears from the Baron's next sentence: "The proposal of the United States is understood to contain nothing that would refuse to independent states the right of self-defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Barb and Weasel | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Thirty five million in 1927, although 68,000,000 enjoy the franchise and the population totals 143,000,000. Only "productive workers" over 18 and soldiers & sailors have the right to vote. Disenfranchised are employers, clericals of all religions, and affiliates of the fallen Tsarist Regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Paradoxes | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Russia, however, one may profess pure Communism without being able to gain admittance to the Communist Party, a rigidly exclusive Oligarchy whose members alone have the right to hold public office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Paradoxes | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...swine! They were tearing the tricolor to tatters, spitting on it, fouling it -the voice of helpless Consul Riccardi became a scream. At Rome, according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight. The snatchers, it appeared, were patriotically incensed because a new and larger-than-usual Italian flag had been unfurled, last week, on the 13th anniversary of the day when Italy finally declared war on Austria (see ITALY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Italian Crow | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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