1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
Charles Emmerson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.”
“External powers, rather than providing a helping hand, preferred to wield the carving knife.”
“The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.”
“It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.”
“Circumstances could change quickly at the outer edges of the world, bound as they were to the global economy, yet distant from its heart.”
“As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes to be acclaimed and discarded, giving full reign to the fickle fortunes of war.”
“Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever be stuck in a kind of no man's land between East and West, not allowed to assimilate into the international order of the Western nations as an equal, forever grouped with the countries of the East among which she felt herself superior, and respected fully by neither group?”
“A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.”
“value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.”
“a world fair celebrated the progress of the nations of the world. It did not investigate its underpinnings.”
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