Word: covenanter
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(2) That the same committee be authorized to suggest amendments in the Covenant of the League which may make it possible for America to support it.
That most passionately cherished and most bitterly anathematized document, the League of Nations Covenant, was one of the subjects dealt with at length by Mr. Hamilton Holt, Executive Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON.
"Every president of the United States from George Washington to Harding has been quoted as being in favor of international peace. In recent times they have put the expression in a more concrete form, but usually without any lasting result. Grover Cleveland's treaty was blocked by the Senate. McKinley...
It follows, therefore, that American sentiment is correct in so far as it assumes that the Conference cannot stop half way: that is, the mere limitation of navies. In view of the general opinion of France as expressed in the above quotation, it seems logical that if navies are very...
"By refusing to accept the League of Nations many years must be lost before the benefit to the rest of the world that would have been caused by our prompt entrance can be fully made up," said Hamilton Holt, editor of the "Independent' and prominent pro-League Republican, in an...