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...great kings, and the Revolution. . . . You may believe this or not. But one thing is certain: the East has never lived so clearly before modern eyes. The book, once opened, cannot be closed. It has caught and held and given triumphant expression to that power that, even today, can compel the spirit of man to "ride in triumph through Persepolis...
...Bolsheviki are very busy talking about war and explaining to the world the significance of the Ruhr, Memel, Vilna. At the fifth anniversary of the formation of the Red Army, Trotzky, Minister of War, said: "We want peace, but nobody knows when the bad intentions of our enemies will compel us to get into the field." They ridicule France's attitude with regard to the Ruhr and spare no opportunity to cover that nation with caustic criticism. They have informed the Allies that they will accept no settlement of the Memel question unless they are consulted, holding that...
Most of the English visitors to this country are past masters in the art of creating a good impression. Instead of trying to do our thinking for us or to give us ready-made conclusions, as the Gormans generally tried to do, they compel us to like them personally. In other words, they labor to put us in a favorable mood by means of their engaging personalities. When in that frame of mind it is difficult for us to reach conclusions that are unfavorable to British plans and policies...
...residence is compulsory, we have felt from the beginning the necessity of not including colored men. To the other dormitories and dining rooms they are admitted freely, but in the Freshman Halls, I am sure you will understand why, from the beginning, we have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to reside together...
...sorry that you do not feel the reasonableness of our position about the Freshman dormitories. It is not a departure from the past to refuse to compel white and colored men to room in the same building. We owe to the colored man the same opportunities for education that we do to the white man; but we do not owe to him to force him and the white into social relations that are not, or may not be, mutually congenial...