Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worried. All he needed was a draw to win first place in the International Grand Masters Tournament, to repeat his triumph gained at Moscow three years before. On the 36th move he succeeded; achieved a situation which his opponent could not prevent his repeating ad infinitum if the aggressor wished...
...forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect, the United States still wishes to protect her prosperity by exchanging paper promises of peace with other powers. It is explained that this multilateral pact does not interfore with the League covenant or other alliances, because it an aggressor nation breaks it, the peace is no longer valid, and it may he attacked. What it does do, is to make nations liable merely on the grounds of political honor, an unsecured liability chosen instead of the punitive assets of the League, which seems, to continue the metaphor, bad business...
...Wickham Steed, British editor, a White House caller of last fortnight, left with President Coolidge a world peace plan involving boycott by the U. S. of the aggressor nation in any war. After study, President Coolidge indicated that he viewed with alarm even passive U. S. participation in foreign wars...
Gordon was the aggressor during most of the play, although Whitbeck stroked to his back-hand consistently. The points were evenly divided for each game up to deuce but Whitbeck generally proved his superiority by forcing the pace at critical moments. His strokes were accurate and fast throughout the final play of the University's largest tournament...
...incident, great or small, arises, the powerful nations resort to violence, there can be no peace. Nicaragua, Haiti, Amritsar, Rubr, Corfu, Egypt all involved a resort, to force upon the part of the great and powerful nations against the unarmed and helpless. In all of these instances the aggressor nation was strong enough and powerful enough to have invoked conciliation, adjustment, and arbitration, and thus to have set examples and established precedents more valuable to the cause of peace than any peace plan...