Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascist Deputy as a compliment and a tribute. That was before he bared his fangs and showed that his bite was more powerful than his bark. When, earlier in the year, he bitterly attacked Fascismo, his Fascist comrades were not so sure that they had done a good thing for the Party by giving him a seat. And, as he stood upon the floor of the Chamber last week, the Opposition was more hopeful than the Government supporters...
...strong action was some-thing more. It was an assertion of British supremacy in the East?a reminder to agitators within the Empire that their aims, no matter how just, cannot be achieved by means of inflammatory propaganda and assassinations...
...Continental nations, and England too, know very well the American attitude toward that matter of training, and they know that it is simply a question of individual will-a question in which jealousy can hardly be involved. Whether they want to go through the same mill is a different thing, but certainly not one for which we can be held to blame...
Then there was a curious small thing, one which you might not imagine would be a trouble-maker but one which nevertheless came to be exceedingly annoying to the audience. That was the custom of playing, at the close of each event, the national anthem of the country which had won, and of running up the flags of the countries taking the first three places. Now that is a pleasant courtesy to the winners, but it becomes an awful bore to the spectators, whether they be winners or losers. More than that, it rubs in the victory just that much...
...only thing that will bring peace is the machinery of peace. The machinery of war will bring nothing...