Charles Emmerson Quotes

#1. A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

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#2. The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Among Europe's Great Powers only Austria-Hungary remained without a colonial empire.

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#9. value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.

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#10. His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.

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#11. Circumstances could change quickly at the outer edges of the world, bound as they were to the global economy, yet distant from its heart.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.

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#14. a world fair celebrated the progress of the nations of the world. It did not investigate its underpinnings.

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#15. External powers, rather than providing a helping hand, preferred to wield the carving knife.

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