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...people have not yet grasped the greatness of this conference. They thought Harding was exaggerating when he dwelt in glowing terms on the magnitude of its achievements. America cannot now compel Japan to do what she wants. We have voluntarily laid down the power, and can only lay our case before justice and the bar of world opinion. And the act was voluntary--opinion. And the act was voluntary--purely on our own initiative. The greatest of the nations has led the way towards peace and has laid down her aggressive art. That is the great achievement of the Conference...
...world. Unfortunately these liberal elements are not strong enough to make themselves effectively felt against the militarists who are in such a dominating position. So the only thing we can do is to so forcefully convince the Japanese delegates of the impropriety of their course that they will compel their government at home to substitute for the present imperialistic policy aspirations for the industrial development of Japan and trade abroad. In the forthcoming conference Anglo-American cooperation must and will be predominant...
...this institution is becoming the corner-stone of American progress. Yet the association of the library with the despised text-book still discourages the schoolboy from spending an hour with a favorite volume. And it is here that the power of the court may be used to advantage to compel an acquaintance with standard literature...
...manual worker who strengthens his economic bargaining power by association with other into unions, provided his purpose and methods are legal, exercises an undoubted right of association. But the exercise of that right does not require or compel others who differ with him as to the value of the collective method for the promotion of his individual interest to refrain form joining such organization and it is this which the closed shop seeks to compel. The right to remain unassociated is quite as vital as the right to join any particular association, nor does this right destroy the other...
...obvious, of course, that no sort of pressure can compel Germany to perform the impossible. Just so long as the Allies demand the impossible, just so long will Germany find a means of evasion...