Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to the World War, let that nation which is without sin cast the first stone. Individual acts and words, however, make a bridge for international understanding. Last week, before 5,000 German-Americans, Cardinal Michael Ritter von Faulhaber of Munich, admitted freely that his countrymen and the Imperial German Government had made grave mistakes both before and during the war. He apologized personally for the sinking of the Lusitania, the invasion of Belgium and other acts of his fatherland. He said he was not representing the government, and would account for what he said only to himself...
...scholarships, in each case, form a definite nucleus around which to build up a permanent student representation. However, small numbers may almost prove of advantage. At Oxford, there is danger lest the size of the group of Americans defeat its purpose, for the students are surrounded by their own countrymen, and thorough intermingling with the English is hampered. The two Englishmen at Harvard will have no such obstacle to becoming acquainted with the peculiarities of Americans. They may well fear partial "Americanization...
Obstinacy. The third Marquis of Salisbury, father of Lord Robert Cecil, once made a speech at Oxford, in which he referred to his countrymen as the "English." The speech was interrupted by loud cries of "British!" "What aboot the Scots!" But Salisbury went doggedly ahead and continued to say "English." In the same spirit France continues her policy in the Ruhr. She pays no heed to the economic consequences of her occupation of Germany's great industrial area, and, as obstinate as was the Marquis of Salisbury in saying "English," France is obstinate in believing that she will...
...murder. Her burden may be heavy and the way difficult, but sanguinary tactics are suicidal. France, on the other hand, will succeed in completely alienating foreign sympathy if she allows the present situation to develop. Moreover, " killings" give the Germans an opportunity of doing homage to their martyred countrymen...
...Strachey, editor of The Spectator, points out that the Ruhr is becoming a second Alsace-Lorraine and reminds his countrymen that "one Alsace-Lorraine cost us one million dead." The New Statesman, another British weekly, energetically recommends "action" to the Government. It goes on to agree with the policy of leaving the Army on the Rhine, and while deploring Mr. Lloyd George's foreign policy, it says "he was the fully authorized spokesman of Great Britain, and we cannot repudiate responsibility for what he did. We must stay in Cologne. It is at least a pied a terre from...