Word: schemers
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Admiral Dewey. As a sailor Dewey was vigorous, commanding, resourceful. As a politician he was a fumbling schemer. Mr. Dibble uses him as a peg for a searching criticism of the whole conduct of the war in the Philippines-its disingenuous policies, double-faced dealings with natives and foreign countries, masked imperialism, hidden atrocities by and upon the invading army...
Pashitch is Serbia's veteran politician and chiefly remembered in Western Europe for his connection with the arch-schemer Venizelos in forming the Balkan League. Pashitch was formerly a radical, but since his rise to power he has been gradually forced to relinquish his radical tendencies in favor of conservatism...