Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Mexico's soil seems a more fertile field for the seeds of revolution than that of any other country. Revolts and counter-revolts, executions and dictatorships, nowhere else are either so virulent or so persistent. Only through a rule of iron was Diaz able to maintain order, and at his policy of allowing foreigners to exploit Mexican resources the natives surged with discontent. The Mexican peon is like the dog in the manger; although he cannot govern himself, he will not long tolerate another's doing it; although he himself can not exploit the country's mineral wealth...
...Satni" follows the new rule of the leading musical comedies on the stage today of dispensing with all but the bare outlines of a plot--a beautiful daughter, lost in Egypt when a child, is sought by her parents. She is found by her brother, who recognizes her song at a cabaret--and that's all there is to it. Mrs. Nevil lard has an opportunity in the part of Helea, the daughter, to do some excellent singing, and her voice is well above the standard of musical comedy heroines. Probably the best acting is done by Miss Helen Bennett...
...mandatory, the United States would be in the position of trustee for the development and ultimate self-rule of Armenia. This is the principle on which the United States has acted since 1787 in the administration of its dependencies, the principle that has been followed in the case of Cuba in the years following 1898, and in the Philippines since its annexation, and which must be reinforced no by our actions as well as by our words...
...situation warrants it. We do not know what is going to develop. It brings the matter to us forcibly that we are now threatened by a rather difficult situation. We are going to have a government of sane constructive elements or we are going to permit radicalism to rule. I don't think we are going to permit the latter...
...powers, toward solving the problem of the Near East. But our people, in company with the nations of Europe, have not been slow to voice their protest against the decision of the allied governments. For over a century the Powers have endeavored to maintain the hopeless anachronism of Turkish rule; and for over a century that policy has brought dissension and wars upon Europe, and terrible suffering upon the subject races of the Empire. It is time for new methods. By the recent Armenian massacres, if by nothing else, the Turk has demonstrated his utter incapacity for any form...