Word: controls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...judgment, an unreasoning obedience to authority is being preached here, as against a democratic control over the authorities. Students are being told not to concern themselves with the inquiry as to what is the wisest action for the country. Instead, wrote a distinguished contributor to the CRIMSON recently, "It is the duty of Harvard men to line up ready for orders, not to take a vote as to the wisdom of those orders." This means, does it not, that the President shall commit the American people to war or peace without their saying one word. Our newspapers, of course...
...being hasty or injudicious in making war on foreign nations. And again we are informed that "there is general misunderstanding and unnecessary alarm." This assertion is ridiculcus. At no time have the press and public been calmer in the face of war, or given greater evidence of self-control. This body of patriots does not desire a war "from which we have nothing to gain." This lamentable fact is undoubtedly true. We would win no territorial acquisitions, no pecuniary indemnities. Small matters, like outrages upon American lives and property and national honor are not considered worthy of mention by pacifists...
...want war. We are in complete accond with the belief that all international questions ought to be decided through diplomatic channels and by reference to arbitration courts and boards of inquiry. But the actual situation has passed beyond the control of such remedies. This thing the pacifists forget. They look to the future, ignoring the dangers of the present time. Their means of solving international disputes may be successful in a later and happier century, but they have no force now in compelling Germany to recognize those rights we claim...
Professor Johnston accepted in his speech the great significance in the war of industrial conditions. He said that we had to consider as powers in the world only four or five countries--or groups of countries--who control coal and iron supplies. The nations, he stated, who did have at their disposal the greatest supplies of these fundamental raw materials controlled the destinies of the world. The case was cited where Germany at the beginning of the war immediately took possession of the iron fields in eastern France...
...fact is that Germany has had the insolence to dictate to us just how many ships we may send to England, when they must arrive, what port they must sail to, and how they must be painted! As she has no blockade, Germany has absolutely no right to claim control over commerce with England. The German mailed fist has pulled American's nose before, which was shameful; now it has slapped her face, which is unbearable. ROYALL H. SNOW...