Word: wanton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Poincare of France, however, seems determined to stay in the Ruhr until such time as Germany starts to make reparation payments. Even then France will only withdraw progressively as payments are received. In two speeches Premier Poincare laid stress on the havoc and wanton destruction wrought in France by the Germans during the War. In no sense can either of these speeches be regarded as a preface to a French reply to the latest British note, although M. Poincare was aware of the contents of the note at the time of making his speeches. He did, however, make...
Robert Williams, General Secretary of the Transport Workers: "War with France is nearer today than war with Germany was in 1911. We cannot desist from criticism of and protest against the wanton policy pursued by France in destroying the economic integrity of Europe. The working class must seek to establish a real democratic diplomacy. We must challenge the assumption that Poincare speaks for France any more than Curzon for England. Unity of the working class is the only means of preventing...
...peace and mind our business only the wanton assault of a wanton nation can ever embroil us. This may happen, it cannot be denied. But it is a dim, remote possibility, while the fruits of militarism are defined and all too certain. We are no more immune from them than are other nations, and the price we may pay will be that which they have paid...
...informed, since 1907. Yet I can not recall that he assailed Heaven with grief and indignation over the violation of Belgium, the sack of Louvain, the desecration of Rheims, the un-warned sinking of un-armed merchant vessels, the murder of Edith Cavel, or any other crime, whether of wanton destruction, raped or massacre, perpetrated by his present proteges. Now, however, he cries out in horror against France...
...then of the utmost concern that university graduates see clearly amid the fog and think straight amidst the babel of confusing voices. It sometimes seems as if no public address could attract attention today unless it constitutes a lurid arraignment of present conditions, or else a wanton attack upon some person or group of individuals. In the field of politics one who declaims of how things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers...