Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change of sentiment in Brussels was a reflection of the settlement of the Belgian debt to the United States. For last week the four representatives of Belgium had sat down with Secretaries Mellon, Kellogg, Hoover, Senator Smoot and Representative Burton and come to a funding agreement...
...nominal. The great body of the people, 95% or more is illiterate and grossly ignorant, some 1,000,000 of its 325,000,000 population are under arms in the control of the several tuchuns (war lords) with conflicting ambitions. In the country there is a strong anti-foreign sentiment which in the south has been encouraged by the Bolsheviks, although the Chinese are too ignorant as a body for communism to mean anything to them. Then there are the foreign colonies and footholds of the powers, and their diplomatic representatives...
...only matter in which the Chinese are even slightly united is in the spirit of anti-foreignism. The only way in which any government can hope to weld the country behind it so that it can really rule, is by catering to that sentiment. Any government that attempts to oppose it is ministering to its own downfall. Consequently the Government in issuing invitations to the customs conference wanted to have customs automony discussed with a view to throwing out foreign control of tariff collection-or, if that is unobtainable, to secure such high duties as will strengthen it by increasing...
...able to protect foreigners, their property and concessions must be established before they will give up their special rights and privileges under present treaties. Yet, the condition is such, according to most observers, that the prospect of developing a stable and powerful government because of increasing anti-foreign sentiment lies only in that government's securing the abrogation of those special treaty privileges...
...they are prepared to make concessions the way may be open to a gradual amelioration of the present tense and fruitless state of affairs. On the other hand it will lay their nationals and their interests open to suffering and trespass if not destruction by the anti-foreign sentiment abroad in China. If the powers stand strictly by their treaty rights they may so weaken the Government on which they depend for guarantee of those rights, that they may within a few months or years be faced with the alternative of using force or losing their foothold in the country...