Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prepared by Lord Salisbury. The charge advocated is radical and uncertain, as all plans for a permanent court have been deemed impracticable and impossible. What is the excuse for a permanent court if it is not to prevent war? It is questions of principle which cause war, and they cannot be arbitrated. What recent war, we ask, could have been prevented by arbitration? We have at present, he said, a conspicuously successful system of arbitration. Why should we throw it over for an uncertain...
...most eminent jurists of the Anglo-Saxon race and invested with the honor and authority of the two greatest nations of the age must powerfully affect the imagination of the people. Here are two advantages which the negative have not been able to deny. With the permanent court you cannot help getting them; without the court you cannot get them...
...There is no well-grounded objection which can be brought against a permanent court which cannot equally be brought against a treaty device. And, more than this, it falls short of the positive advantages which a permanent court must give. It is still a promise against a reality, and so long as it is possible for diplomatists to dodge the meaning of treaties, and so long as they can gain by doing so, such a treaty system must remain obviously inferior to a permanent court. To sum it all up in a word, the way to be sure...
...Stokes, the third Yale speaker, said: We would argue as a substitute for their plan the proposition of statesmanship; upon this we rest our hopes of greater peace. We can guarantee absolute impartiality in special cases, while they cannot in a permanent court. Our system is perfectly natural. It has grown up with both nations and has settled all cases which could possibly have been settled by permanent courts. Again, diplomacy is the easiest method of settling dispute. The knowledge of the existence of such a court will take away the sense of responsibility from diplomatists. If the affirmative would...
...STEVENS.FRESHMAN BANJO CLUB.- Any man who misses the rehearsals Monday, Wednesday and Friday cannot play at Brookline Saturday night...