Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House to be congratulated by President Hoover went Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin just back from .its round-the-world flight (see p. 42). The President said: ". . . The spirit of high adventure still lives ..." and returned to his desk...
...President Hoover last week sent a message to the Zionist Organization of America, under the auspices of which a huge Manhattan demonstration against Arab outrages in Palestine was held (see p. 26). Declared President Hoover: ". . . My profound sympathy . . . good citizens deplore. . . . Our government is deeply concerned ... the fine spirit shown by the British government. . . . American Jews . . . have demonstrated fine sentiment and ideals. . . . Out of these tragic events will come greater security and greater safeguards for the future under which the steady rehabilitation of Palestine as a true homeland will be even more assured. . . . The fine sympathy of the American people...
...give us due respect. . . . If we do not strive hard to make a great struggle we shall be finished. We must confess that even in Nanking, our capital, we can ask ourselves: how many military and civil officials of our General Staff can be favorably compared in spirit and energy with the foreigners? How many of us know even the scientific way of running our daily Government business...
When the tirade was over and President Chiang had been calmed, officials close to him explained that he had been trying to rally the national patriotic spirit. Later the same day he continued "rallying" in an address to cadets of the Central Military Academy at Nanking...
During 1917-20, when the young Soviet Union was fighting for existence against White Russian Generals Kolchak and Wrangel, the spirit and energy of Comrade Vassili Constantinovitch Blücher four times won him the highest Soviet military decoration, "The Red Banner." Five years later the Soviet Government sent Comrade Blücher to Canton under the alias "General Galen." There he became military adviser to the Chinese revolutionaries who subsequently conquered all China and now constitute the Chinese Government headed by President Chiang Kaishek...