Word: discordant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...return for peace. Do you consider that your present policy toward Russia has resulted in stamping out Bolshevism in the United States? It would be folly to believe that you entertain such an idea. The present policy of the United States toward Russia is a fruitful source of class discord. Laborers all over the country are protesting; they are being driven by your tactics to follow the lead of the railroad workers of France, England and Italy, who threatened to strike if intervention did not cease...
...public must demand. At most there can only be a gradual adjustment to the present scale of wage and price. Retracing steps to the former standard of living would provoke a greater strain on society than adjustment to the present. Some agreement should be reached to remedy this discord in our national harmony Needed, a thorough establishment of faith...
Germany has much to gain by softening the hearts of the people of the United States; she has much to gain by sowing discord among the Associated Powers. Her system of agents and propagandists--with the exception of a certain number who have been taken into custody during the war is as complete as ever; the controlling force is acting under a new name, but that is almost the-only-difference. No effort and no outlay of money is being spared to mould opinion in America to a favorable view of Germany's plight. Nothing is overlooked that might create...
Reports are beginning to reach this country of ill-feeling and disturbances between French and American soldiers and between British and Americans. Certain newspapers--not necessarily intentionally--distort the actual facts, magnify trivial incidents and in general do a great deal to spread the seeds of discord that the Boche have taken such pains to sow. Headlines such as the following may be seen almost daily in the news-papers: "British Even More Bitter Against Americans Than French"; "Charm of La Belle France a Myth"; "French Glad to See Last of Americans"; "Dislike on All Sides in England"; "Doughboys Receive...
Since this need of cordial international co-operation is so essential, why are the peace terms not forged now while the iron is hot? The longer they are delayed, the more chance is there for the German propagandists to sow discord among the Allies and to draw attention away from the indemnity. There is no doubt that this is being attempted. The old imperial governmental mechanism has been taken over in whole by the Ebert government. The same men are in charge. The reported "panning" of the French and British by the American soldiers can be attributed only...