Word: wilsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilsonian Ideals. At Rio de Janeiro widespread satisfaction was expressed at the action of Brazil in serving notice of withdrawal upon the League (TIME, June 21). President-elect Luis Jerne of Brazil who will succeed President Bamardes next October refused to comment, but Acting President of the Chamber Committee of Foreign affairs said last week: "Brazil's action means closer relations with the American republics, especially the United States. It became inevitable when it was seen that Latin America would not obtain a seat in the League Council. Woodrow Wilson's peace ideals are our ideals...
...attempt of the Germans to rehash wartime bitterness is not altogether prompted by the desire for moral vindication. If they could prove themselves innocent, the whole basis of the Versailles treaty would fall through. As a sop to Wilsonian idealism, Germany was forced to pay reparations and give up colonies not as the price of defeat but as punishment for starting...
...national hero, the Judge, slight of body, poor of purse,* is left to fight the Klansmen practically alone. And reported as leagued with the Klansmen on this occasion are all the "forces of evil" which the Judge's reforms irritated in the halcyon days of Rooseveltian reform and Wilsonian new freedom...
...principles" are principally one-entrance into the League of Nations. In that respect he is absolutely Wilsonian-not, of course, that Mr. Cox has the other attributes of the late President. Samuel G. Blythe put well the contrast between Cox and Wilson by asking each what was the outstanding feature of the President's office. Said Wilson: "The power of decisions." Said Cox: "The power to take a situation by the nape of the neck and the seat of the trousers and shake a result out of it." If William G. McAdoo is out of the race, then...
...Politics is adjourned," a Wilsonian epigram, came true on the day of his death. His memory was saluted in every language, in every degree of respect, admiration, devotion...