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...Ruhr (for the collection of reparations) into a separate barrier state between Germany and France. This policy the French have all along denied as being their object in seizing the Ruhr. It would, however, be convenient if the events in Germany caused by the Ruhr seizure were to compel Premier Poincaré to adopt Pertinax's policy against his will...
...have finally adopted a half way course: we do not compel a man to take all the courses offered by the department of Military Science; but if he wishes to take any of them, he must, in justice to the government, begin with the first fundamental courses and then work up to whatever course he desires...
...settled over Europe's chanceries. There really is ground for the belief that the Germans have been back of the agitation for Esperanto, in a desire to make an indirect attack on French and British influence through the French and English tongues. Also the Soviets recently attempted to compel the Russian Esperantists to use their language to further Bolshevist doctrines...
...greatest amount of discussion was aroused in the controversy over compulsory attendance at Sunday Chapel. In addition to the declaration that forced presence at Chapel was a prostitution of a religious service, its main purpose being to compel students to remain in New Haven a large proportion of the week ends during the college year, those opposed to it brought forward many arguments to support their stand, as did also those who favored the continuance of the present policy...
...that at the very moment when the moral sense of the world is struggling as never before to free itself from the domination of war and force, we are all of us expected to bow down, before Poincare and say: 'Yes, this is the right and Christian way to compel the payment of the debt'. We who hold to our faith in the teachings of Jesus Christ are asked to believe that any sums of money which may be pressed out of the Ruhr are to be sanctified and holy, that the coal mined by a half-starved and half...