Citations:rapprochement

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English citations of rapprochement

1892 1913 1926
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  1. The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.
    • 1892 February, James Sulley, “Is Man the Only Reasoner?”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume XL, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 506:
      Not forever, however, was the animal world to suffer this indignity at the hands of man. Thinkers themselves prepared the way for a rapprochement between the two. More particularly the English philosophers from [John] Locke onward, together with their French followers, [] may be said by a sort of leveling-down process to have favored the idea of a mental kinship between man and brute.
    • 1913 - "GERMANS NOT CORDIAL.; Scout French Talk of Rapprochement Almost with Gruffness.", The New York Times, October 12, 1913.
      The comment in the leading German newspapers would indicate that there is little enthusiasm in Germany for a rapprochment with France.
    • 1926 December 2, “‘No victors’ if European war starts: French foreign policy: China and Italy”, in The Daily Examiner, volume 18, number 2721 (New Series), Grafton, N.S.W.: Printed and published by William Frederick Blood, of Grafton, for the Daily Examiner, Limited, [...], →OCLC, page 5:
      M. [Aristide] Briand, in a statement on the French foreign policy said a lasting European peace was impossible without a Franco-German rapprochement.