Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wickham Steed, onetime Foreign Editor of The Times, contributed an article to the Review of Reviews (London). In his article, he reproduced a letter, published in The Times in 1919, signed by "F. S. T." The argument of this letter was that the wealthy classes should set an example to the Nation by imposing upon themselves a capital levy. It continued...
...prohibit traffic in arms, or to give a deterrent publicity to the traffic? This question led to argument between arms-producing and nonproducing nations. It was recalled that the U. S. had declined to sign the Saint Germain treaty? giving as reason that the prohibition of arms export except under license to responsible governments would automatically deprive revolutionaries whose cause was just of their right to revolt. It was contended that prohibition would make producing nations of the non-producers?the last thing to be desired. This question was thrashed out anew. The insistence of many nations made it clear...
...friendly enemies of the U. S. were not slow to say: "At it again," thereby meaning that the U. S. was trying to "clean up" the whole arms trading situation instead of approaching the problem step by step. The pros and cons of gas in warfare were debated. The argument against gas can be put in one word: "Inhumane." The argument for gas, although not so well known, has been ably presented. Prof. J. B. S. Haldane is one of the ablest exponents of this viewpoint...
...problem facing the government. It is cheaper for the United States to use the ships of other nations; and in, fact the offering of her shipping is one of the few ways in which Europe can pay back the vast debt owed to the United States. The arguments for a great American merchant marine are based almost entirely on sentiment. There is only one valid argument for the support of an unprofitable institution; that of provision for national defense...
...Honor students would fulfill more exacting requirements in the work with their tutors, and would receive special instruction. We are not, however, among those who feel that this plan should be extended to them alone. Although a good argument could be made for this limited extension as a temporary and experimental step, democracy would demand a universal privilege as in politics it has demanded a universal suffrage, the more so because the case for expansion rests on general and not on special grounds...