Word: vassalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumanian Government newsorgan Viitorul burst out defiantly last week: ''Rumania is not Germany's vassal, nor is she a substitute for Germany's lost colonies!" Viitorul accused Germany of systematically buying Rumanian raw materials on credit, then turning around and selling them at cut rates for gold on the world market, thus adding to Germany's hard cash reserves, leaving Rumania holding German promises to pay. This game the Nazis have been playing all over southeastern Europe and in Latin America for several years. Said Viitorul: "We cannot afford to tie ourselves solely to Germany...
...sources from which New York gets more than four-fifths of its revenues were also tapped by the Federal Government. Since the Federal Government tends to win in all such conflicts, the time may come when the States can no longer finance themselves. "They would," said Governor Lehman, "become vassal states and their importance as units of government would disappear...
...lawyers supply most of the popular leaders and El Nahas Pasha is one of the ablest, most belligerent of Egypt's lawyers. A forceful speaker, he fired the fuse to last year's anti-British rioting, said: "We want to be Britain's ally, not her vassal...
...Magna Charta? The right of a lord to be tried by his peers was just as much the law during the reign of William the Conqueror as during the reign of King John. This custom originated in the early Middle Ages and was the right of every vassal (lord) that held his land by feudal contract...
...made courage, work and persistence respected in a land where only physical force had any value. . . . The numerous Ministers are generally more or less related to the Emperor and the Emperor considers the granting of a Cabinet post a simple method of calming a noisy cousin or a belligerent vassal. . . . Disorder and misadministration make each Ethiopian Ministry a bottomless barrel into which money flows. . . . Emperor Haile Selassie inherited a savage country. . . . He will never be a leader of men, the chief of the wild hordes that his predecessors were. The Emperor knows this and the knowledge saddens...