Word: bargained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When France demands that Alsace-Lorraine be returned to her, it is because these territories were torn away 47 years ago. It is a question of right, and right you cannot bargain with. We did not want this war, we did not prepare for it--it was waged against us with the most utter disregard of the laws of humanity and we prefer to die than to fail in our demand for justice...
...unsympathetic your roommate appears when he sees the bargain! Yet sure enough, to smoke the third layer you must wear a gas mask, while the tailor explains that you have just enough cloth for a nice vest...
...reached that point of patriotism where he will invest all his savings in government bonds, while the present state of the stock market, lowered to panic level by vast liquidation of British collateral, offers him a chance to buy some gilt-edged security at an unusual bargain. In reality he is defeating his own ends, as should the loan fail, taxation would of necessity be largely increased, and the war considerably prolonged...
...Germany wins that which she desires to win, or holds that which she has already won, the bargain will be worth the cost, and that material strength and spiritual elevation which go with conquest will be hers. It will not be her rulers' nor her generals', but the possession of the people which have waged this war with full desire, the possession of the people and of their children...
...disturbance of power far greater than any of them can hope to accomplish to their own profit,--Japan's seizure of the Chinese finances and army. She is now in a position to demand of the eventual winner even heavier terms. And Germany can hardly afford to bargain with...