Word: accompli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inasmuch as the author pessimistically presents his charge as a fiat accompli, it seems imperative to rise up and remind him that he is dangerously on the verge of offending certain Boston sport writers who pride themselves on having classified Harvard football long ago. Their diagnosis has boldly proclaimed that there are altogether too many "gentlemanly" gentlemen in Harvard football for its own good. Such a clash of reliable judgements naturally brings the question to an impasse...
Notably the district of Vilna, birthplace of Marshal Pilsudski, changed hands between Lithuania and Poland no less than five times in the year 1920. Eventually Vilna was seized with great firmness by the Polish General Zeligovski (Oct. 9, 1920), and this fait accompli was recognized by the Council of Ambassadors (TIME, March 31, 1923). Since 1920, however, both countries have remained in a nominal "state of war," and quarrels on every possible minor issue have been incessant...
...Nationalists, however, were angered. They recalled that Dr. von Prittwitz welcomed the advent of the German Republic in 1918 a trifle too enthusiastically and that even now, as a Democrat, he was a member of the November Ninth Club, a republican organization. Faced by a fait accompli, however, they drew in their horns and decided for the most part to "await events" before passing judgment...
Since the present relations of the U. S. and Turkey are more than usually amicable (due to Admiral Bristol) there remains for his successor chiefly the task of devising with Turkish statesmen some means whereby the U. S. Senate may eventually be brought to recognize as a fait accompli the post-War status of Turkey. Other nations have done this by ratifying the Lausanne Treaty, but the U. S. continues to refuse, chiefly because many U. S. clergymen still heatedly allege the "oppression" of Christians in Turkey...
...issue was Monarchy vs. Republic, although there is no question of an immediate restoration of the Hohenzollerns). About 45% of the people remain attached to the Republican régime, although the Catholics, forming about 30% of the Republican vote, could certainly be expected to sup port a Monarchical fait accompli. Something under 8% of the people favor a dictatorship of the proletariat...