Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long been a source of irritation to Asiatic nations that some countries insist upon excluding their nationals because they belong to the yellow race. To avoid exclusion of Japanese because of this there exists today a gentleman's agreement between Japan and the United States that Japan will not allow her laborers to come to this country, and it must be said that this agreement has honestly been kept. The arrangement does not establish race equality; it merely postpones the issue...
...provide for race equality in the League of Nations covenant would be quite logical, as far as abstract equality between nations goes, but the economic phase of the proposal would be sure to produce friction. And even though the recognition of race equality were supplemented by a gentleman's agreement not to exercise the rights awarded in the league treaty, it is likely that such an agreement would sooner or later be repudiated...
Whereas any code of rules between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton would tend to give an erroneous impression of the existence of an exclusive triumvirate and is contrary to undergraduate opinion, it is believed extremely unwise to enter into any additional limiting agreement except such eligibility rules as may from time to time appear necessary...
...appeal for advice extended by the Athletic Committee to the Student Council is already bearing fruit. The latter has passed resolutions disapproving any limiting agreement with Yale and Princeton, and strongly advocating that football be placed on a strictly ante-war footing. This view of athletic policy may be termed the first real expression of undergraduate opinion on the subject...
Senator Lodge's criticism of the League of Nations Constitution seems to centre in the fear that the United States, by endorsing such an agreement, would be robbed of its right of sovereignty in domestic as well as in foreign affairs. This attitude of his is peculiarly interesting in view of a statement made by him in May, 1916, in support of the platform of the League to Enforce Peace. At that time he is quoted as saying: "I know how quickly we shall be met with the statement that this is a dangerous question which you are putting into...