Word: imperialistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aboard the Soviet battleship October Revolution sailors met and decided: "The time has come to end the criminal game of the Finns." An interesting aberration came from the Kirov plant workers: "The ruling clique of Finland has reached the limits of madness and has, at the orders of its imperialist masters, declared war on our Soviet Union...
...Having sold the interests of the country's independence, the plutocratic rulers of Finland, jointly with all kinds of imperialist enemies of the Finnish and Soviet peoples, ceaselessly hatched plans of anti-Soviet war provocations and finally plunged our country into the furnace of war against the Socialist Soviet Union-the great friend of the Finnish people...
...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...
...colonial powers scarcely needed this landing, or the newspaper campaign introducing it, to inform them of Japan's ambitions in their spheres of empire. There had been previous signals: the peremptory seizure of Hainan, the occupation of the strategic Spratly Islands, the frank avowal of many a world-imperialist Japanese. Punctuating the European war as it did, the landing served rather to make the world review just what was still to be found in the treasure of the Indies. Were the outposts worth defending...
...elder Pitt's] attacks of gout," said the Italian paper Telegrafo last week, "were the most splendid and memorable in British history. They are definitely linked with the conquest of Canada and India. In British statesmen [gout] acts as an imperialist stimulant. Beware if Mr.Chamberlain returns to the House of Commons . . . hobbling on crutches...