Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given the character and qualities of leadership of a man, it is still essential to know his political principles. In a recent letter to a North Carolina newspaper friend, Mr. Baker wrote...
...political expediency be taken simply to mean an advisability arising from a careful calculation of the expected action of voters and entrenched minority interests, the term has little place in Mr. Baker's vocabulary. The strength of his convictions is such that they must be freely expressed regardless of consequence. And this does not spring from a desire for martyrdom or from a stupid obstinacy, but from the genuine belief which he shared with Wilson that public opinion is not a static condition but that it is a thing alive and growing, capable of response to stimulation and direction...
...harmony with this underlying body of conviction, Mr. Baker has for years sought to convince America that the day of isolation in world affairs is past, and that a true understanding of our interests and responsibilities as a member of a larger community must compel us to take a more active part in international life. In this view, Mr. Baker is unique and outstanding among the possible Democratic nominees. At a time when it is becoming more and more apparent that prosperity or depression is dependent on international conditions, it is imperative that the next occupant of the white House...
...Baker's Platform...
...Baker is for the World Court, a reduction of armaments, and an international conference to consider tariffs and other obstacles to economic development. His mind is not closed to the reconsideration of war debts if that be necessary to our own and to Europe's recovery. For years he has advocated our joining the League of Nations and his speech on the League at the Madison Square convention of 1924 ranks among the most eloquent efforts of modern times. His position has not changed, but he is sufficiently a realist to recognize the folly, and the constitutional impossibility...