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...those tight little Englanders who look upon their colonies in a motherly sort of way, Canada's action in registering independently a treaty at the headquarters of the League will come as a severs, if not unexpected shock. The apron-strings which bind the dominions to the home government have never been pulled too tight, at least not in a hundred, years. But it must be painful to the benevolent conquerors of a large part of the globe to discover such readiness, nay, anxiety to throw off the maternal leading-strings...
...Government, however, is sufficiently strong to destroy the Aventine opposition entirely. I solemnly bind myself within 48 hours of this speech to clear up the political situation...
...history of the Italian theatre in the last twenty years has been an endeavor to express the struggle between man's real nature and the conventions, or masks, as Pirandello expresses it, which bind and hem in man's individuality. Pirandello in Italy, Shaw in England, and O'Neill in America have given voice to this nameless longing for new ideals and for a new life in which man shall triumph over an artificial standard of morality and social conventions...
...said, "The President's insistence on the 'recommendation which is now before the Senate' with reference to the Permanent Court of International Justice is welcome, indeed, but it is to be regretted that he now attaches a further condition. The advisory opinions given by the Court do not bind any State; and I can see no reason for our putting a condition that the United States should not be bound by them...
...Hope To Bind Class Together...