Word: saxonism
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...Rome in May to choose a successor to its president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The question is: Who will be elected? Mrs. Margery Corbett Ashby is being put forward by English suffragists. But the post has been occupied by an American for 20 years, and another Anglo-Saxon is considered undesirable. Mme. Marguerite Schlumberger, president of the French branch of the alliance, is suggested, but her election might "drive the Germans out of the association." Besides Mrs. Ashby and Mme. Schlumberger, Miss Crystal MacMillan of Scotland is the only other woman mentioned as a presidential possibility...
...article in one of Hugo Stinnes' papers, Die Allgemeine Zeitung, in which I said that although it would be difficult to forget the 'barbarous methods of war employed by the English,' Germany must strike out on paths that will make serious antagonism to the Anglo-Saxon impossible...
...clear, deep voice Bishop Brent read a passage from the Bible. Apart from any meaning, the words fell on the ear like the call of a bell on a frosty morning. They were clean, terse, direct words such as an honest Angle Saxon uses. The ten-minute sermon which followed was like this, too. It was the encouraging hand grip of a man you could trust. Then the choir sang as only Dr. Davison can make a choir sing--feeling expressed in music. And everyone joined in a hymn and listened to the tense little prayer which concluded the service...
...opinion that Germany must be forced to pay and that the present policy of France has been adopted as a direct result of the lessons of experience, while the British plan is likely to be suicidal rather for the Anglo-Saxon nations than for France. A. DN CUGNAC 1G. February...
...possible that the organization's strength is overestimated. Its secrecy and the bravado of its officials make accurate facts inaccessible; and the unusual circumstances of its acts encourage publicity out of all proportion to their real importance. Its professed policy, of upholding law and order and Anglo-Saxon supremacy in-the face of duly appointed officials, frightens the public into exaggerated alarm, as does all questioning of established authority...