Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Government," cooed Adolf Hitler, "welcomes the spirit of trustful discussion" invoked by France and Britain. With masterly omission, he ignored the Eastern Locarno and the Austrian pacts. With sure intuition, the Little Man grown big sensed that he might insert discord between Britain and France by accepting, only that part of their declaration upon which John Bull sets most store: the Air Pact against unprovoked aerial aggression. Accepting this "in principle," the Realmleader declared that his Government "is therefore willing to seek, in free accord with the powers concerned, ways and means by which such a convention...
...meet inaugurates a new phase of Harvard athletics, in which increasing emphasis is to be placed upon competition between House teams and the fostering of a House spirit. Other competitions have been held between individual House teams and opponents from other colleges, but this is the first in which a genuine meet is scheduled...
LOCARNO (Dec. 1, 1.925) set Europe off on a decade tinged with "pactomania." The Locarno Pact and sweet "Spirit of Locarno" (which assumed that Germany had kissed France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
...Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victor's heels and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today, while still lacking an army, becomes a factor of might once more." THE LOCARNO PACT was prettied up in "The Spirit of Locarno" by being tied with what was called "blue ribbon, the color of the Blue Bird of Happiness, the color of peace." Supplemental Locarno accords were made even prettier with a Maypole effect achieved by intertwining ribbons in the colors of the signatory states. Inevitably this lush, pre-Depression spirit gave way to the spirit...
...General Huang Mu-sung of the Nationalist Government led a Chinese mission deep into Tibet to see what effect all this kindness, all this money had had. The time seemed most propitious. The British-controlled Dalai Lama had died in December 1933, and according to immemorial tradition his spirit was announced to have found residence in the body of a small button-eyed Tibetan moppet, chosen by wheel-spinning Buddhist priests. Until he reaches his majority the new Dalai Lama will be shut up in a monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew for certain...