Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subordinate to the State Council of 16 are the five Yuans or Divisional Councils. The first of these, the Executive Council, is the Cabinet, comprising 10 ministries: War, Interior, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Mining, Industry, Commerce and Labor, Education, Communications, Railways, Health...
...foreign interference. The new schedules provide an average tariff of 18%, as opposed to the former 5% plus 2.5% surtax. In defending this sharp increase Finance Minister T. V. Soong declared, probably quite truthfully, that the new Nationalist Government is "in imperative need of funds" to liquidate their Civil War Debt and carry out their impressive programs of peaceful development and reform...
...fitted to the mode of Washington. Only such trifling differences exist as that each Brazilian state is represented by three Senators instead of the Washingtonian two. All too few North American school children have been taught the historic words wherewith Brazil followed the U.S. into war with Germany. Cried President Wenceslao Braz to the Brazilian Congress: "With our elder brother the United States at war, it is impossible for Brazil to remain neutral...
Exactly the opposite stand was taken by President Hipolito Irigoyen of Argentina. Though besought by Woodrow Wilson to declare war on Germany, and though beseeched by his own Senate and Chamber of Deputies to do so, stern Dr. Irigoyen kep Argentina out of war. Recently grateful Argentines re-elected him President, while Woodrow Wilson lies discredited and dead, and Wenceslao Braz has been thoroughly forgotten...
Cacodyl isocyanide, new, vicious compound of poisonous cyanogen, kills instantly. It would, he commented with juggernaut impassivity, "destroy armies as a man might snuff out a candle. . . . War, if it comes again, and is to be deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...