Word: dishonor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...people of the country cannot be hoodwinked with words. They know the men who fought for the Treaty, and they know the men who pledged themselves to scuttle it. The victory that Senator Lodge and his partizan friends have gained is a victory conceived in shame and born in dishonor. It has put the United States on record as the only great nation of the world which refuses to endorse measures preventive of future wars...
...third of the Loan. Our sons gave of their health, of their strength, and of their lives, that freedom might not perish. There are one and a half million American boys in France and Germany. Now that the war is ended it would be as reasonable for them to dishonor the nation by deserting the flag as for the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them. Is it a large thing that we are now asked to lend our money to pay the cost of victory? Is American money less willing than American manhood...
...slogans and cries. It is a subject which calls for very deep consideration and for logical thought. Theoretically, we all favor peace. We should be glad if the curse of war could be swept from the earth, but there is something worse than war and that is national dishonor, and there is something better than peace and that, the preservation of national sovereignty. If it were certain that a League of Nations would bring about universal peace without impairing the sovereignity of the United States or the dampening of American spirit which has brought us to out present prosperity...
...Other men who, not from weakness, but by chance, having fought well and side by side with those who perish, are left unscathed by war, will have the knowledge to elevate their spirits that they shunned in now way injury or destruction because of fear, or weakness soaring into dishonor. But what of those men who now fearfully and silently, are contemplating how they may avoid, by perjury or any means that will not harm their mortal lives, the imminent danger which goes with battle? If they are alive in twenty years, will they face the memory gladly of that...
...Harvard men during this critical period when there should be no discordant note of hesitancy is harmful and intolerable. For this reason alone the CRIMSON disagrees with and denounces the spirit of this organization which hinders steps toward immediate national preparedness, the delay of which may mean ruin and dishonor...