Word: tool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arming. Chinese independence like Korean independence might be as much endangered by a successful protector as by a successful exploiter. A nation which wishes honestly to protect another nation against exploitation will do what the American government is trying to do. It will use its armaments as a diplomatic tool with which to induce other nations to place the possible victim under effective international guaranties--guaranties which will bind America no less than Japan...
...arming. Chinese independence like Korean independence might be as much endangered by a successful protector as by a successful exploiter. A nation which wishes honestly to protect another nation against exploitation will do what the American government is trying to do. It will use its armaments as a diplomatic tool with which to induce other nations to place the possible victim under effective international guaranties--guaranties which will bind America no less than Japan...
...address before the Graduate Schools' Society last evening, President Eliot discussed "The Patriot's Motives for Action in the Coming Election." He attacked the policies of the Republican party and ridiculed Senator Harding's position, saying that he was a tool in the hands of the Senate oligarchy and had no mind or policy...
...presided at the meeting and introduced as the first speaker Demarest Lloyd, president of the Loyal Coalition of Boston. Mr. Lloyd outlined some of the reasons for action against the vicious influences at work today in American politics, particularly those endeavoring to use the United States as a tool to meddle in the domestic affairs of Great Britain for the furthering of the movement for an "Irish Republic" in the heart of that Empire...
Anyone with half an eye can see beneath the pretense of love for Irish liberty to the selfish political motives that prompted these actions. Not Ireland, but the Irish vote is their inspiration. The sooner the Irish-Americans realize that their cause is being made but the tool for Congressional politics and personal aggrandizement the better. America must realize that meddlesome interference by a few vote-seeking politicians is not going to settle the Irish question; it will only make matters worse. The Irish problem must be settled by the Irish and the English. If the legislators at Washington refuse...