Word: wars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjects called him "Ferdinand the Loyal." He was a Hohenzollern from Germany. But he made the decision (it was not forced upon him) to enter the first World War against his own kinsmen in defense of his adopted country. This was not weakness. His statesmanship gave to Rumania universal suffrage and agrarian reform. As a result of the latter measure the peasants-85 per cent of Rumania's population-today own the greater part of the arable land which formerly belonged to the privileged few. These reforms were not weakness...
...cold and partly cloudy in Washington last week when President Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs. Rested after his quietest week since the war began, he stepped off the train to be greeted by a sober-visaged Secretary of State Cordell Hull, flanked by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson. The President's quietest week was over, ended by bombs falling on Helsinki by Russia's invasion of Finland...
...same mood are The March of Time, an essay on war, and "The Amazing Mr. Williams," a light but also bloody murder mystery...
...world and its leaders must look beyond the present war. Blood is being spilled; and the statesman is less than human who is not trying to achieve, at this terrible cost, a world in which peace can endure. Neither is he a true statesman if he does not realize that, under the present system of the balance of power and economic nationalism, such a world is impossible. He must pin his hopes on a world federation; and though men have tried this before and failed, he must realize that to say it is impossible is to say that...
...trying it now are wiser and more far-sighted than those in the past, they will come just that much closer to it. They must certainly be wise enough to profit by what Lord Halifax's speech shows so obviously, that this is an imperialist war. If they learn their lesson well, they may be able to prevent an imperialist peace...