Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would agree on certain fundamental points. The temerity and absurdity of shooting a "threeday" opinion in the face of such unanimity is apparent. One Francis Burton Harrison essayed to ignore the opinions of all Americans resident in the Philippines, as well as the written instructions of the Secretary of War, and he found that he had been looking down the wrong end of the telescope. Not only did his political ideas collapse in ruins but such personal standing as he had as well. And the Filipinos called Harrison the "democratic" Governor and the "autocratic...
...play starts back in slavery days, a few years before the Civil War had brought about the legal emancipation of the colored race. The central theme, in which the action of the whole play is centered with more than usual intensity, is built around the life of a mulatto--a champion of the negro cause who is doomed to increasing disappointment and failure because his aspirations and his pride are out of all proportion to his abilities and his environment. The blood of the old colonnel, his natural father, makes him unwilling to submit to the indignities attendant...
...days that immediately followed the World War, when nations could either have their peace, conferences or let them alone, seem to be gone forever. Nowadays there must not only be a regurgitation by each of the delegates, speaking from his home bureau and placing the blame for the failure of the conference on his colleague, but there must also be preliminary conferences. Of this nature is the Preparatory Disarmament Conference which meets this week at Geneva. One would think that the ushering in of the conference itself would be sufficiently covered by this preliminary...
Germany has been likewise able to throw down the gage to the Allies in her flat refusal to abide by the military strictures placed upon her after the war unless the Allies themselves agree to disarm. And with Russia and Germany as the nations who want peace in the world even if they have to fight for it, there takes place a curious metamorphosis of identity...
...nations who were branded by the majority with responsibility for the World War are the ones who will attend the Geneva Conference with minds most seriously bent on disarmament...