Word: quo
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...have temporarily buried, while by adroit guesswork they try to pick the side which will come out on top in the next struggle for power. The star of France is in the ascendant now, but the eventual balance will depend on whether the nations wish to preserve the status quo. When the alliances thus to be formed have been stabilized and strengthened, a repetition of the catastrophe of 1914 may be expected...
...important institution in the U. S., people have long wondered why the New York Stock Exchange did not do something about it. Last week the Stock Exchange did something. But so long and so stubborn has been the Big Board's silence (except in defense of the status quo), that its gesture was greeted not with applause but simply with amazement. For the first time in its 141 years of existence the New York Stock Exchange spoke officially about the price of a listed stock...
...explanation of the present or a phophecy of the future, we turn to the past for a key. This in itself is a startling reversal in attitude toward history which has hitherto been regarded less as a guide to the future, than as a justification of the status quo...
...What Germany's withdrawal from the League does mean is that the first class powers which oppose the status quo are beginning to negotiate matters of high policy directly with the nations concerned instead of through the League. This movement is traceable to the fact that the organization of the League is such as to give undue prestige, if not power, to second-class member nations which are, almost without exception, unqualified supporters of the status quo...
...revisions of the Versailles Treaty in the League Council by making use of the unanimity rule, she has always been able to justify her position in the public eye by mustering to her support the smaller powers which depend for their very existence upon a preservation of the status quo. In the eyes of the World, France naturally is in a more favorable position as one of several nations opposing revision rather than as a single power refusing to be budged from the top of the pile. It is the necessarily stand-pat atmosphere at Geneva which this situation implies...