Word: slav
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great Slav Empire, relieved of the iron bonds of autocracy, has begun a disintegration. Its national elements, the Poles, the Finns, and the Ukrainians, are turning away. The enemy is at the door. The outcome in doubtful. Yet the ultimate establishment of the independence of those distinct peoples is not too much to be hoped...
...appeared in our newspapers recently to the effect that the belligerent Allies are getting thoroughly tired of the war. Correspondents who are supposedly expert diagnosticians of national and international ailments attribute this symptom to the state of affairs in Russia. They feel that the present opposition of the Slav to this war and the utter chaos in his country are crystalizing anti-militaristic feeling in the other nations, and that this situation may bring about a speedy peace...
...fact that racial and political boundaries differ widely is one of the great causes of disturbance in the Balkan countries and their neighbors today. This distortion of boundaries is due to historical causes. Since Austria drove the Turks from Hungary, she has continually attempted to check the southern Slav, grasping territory whenever possible. During the nineteenth century, Servia, Greece, Roumania, and Bulgaria freed themselves from the Turk, and by a concerted effort in 1912, almost drove him from Europe...
...League is doing to form a close bond between nations even though they may be politically hostile. He said that he believed an international sympathy was being awakened that was to make us, the favored, realize our duty toward the Chinaman in Peking, as great as that toward the Slav in the city slum...