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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This interesting document begins with an admirable survey of post war European economic conditions. The disastrous effects of higher and more numerous tariff walls, restrictions, and prohibitions are accurately surveyed. "Too many states," reads the report, "in pursuit of false ideals of national interest, have imperilled their own welfare and lost sight of the common interests of the world, by basing their commercial relations on the economic folly which treats all trading as a form of war." This paragraph, and two others that follow might have been lifted bodily from Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics". They are overflowing with...
...highly picturesque and significant mediaeval document, not without its spots of beauty--as, for example, in the bit about the dream of two doves, who "uttered again and again the sighs customary to doves, as if talking together." As the final bit of Barrett Wendell's abundant writing, acomplished at Portsmouth and in the Boston Athenaeum during the last summer and autumn (1920) of his life it gains something of interest from the fact, not imparted with other items of information on the "jacket," that Wendell, dubious about the willingness of any publisher to bring it out, handed...
...modification of its radical conceptions, Labor has seen the danger of communism and has opposed it. "We regard the Soviet political regime as the most unscrupulous, most anti-social and most menacing institution in the world today" is the unanimous declaration of the American Federation, voiced in the same document which contains a pledge of unswerving loyalty to American principles...
...general impression of you; but always it is contemporaries whose judgment is formidable and unavoidable. Live now in the fear of that tribunal, --not an abject fear, because independence is an indispensable quality in the honorable man. There is an admirable phrase in the Declaration of Independence, a document which it was the good fashion for the boys of my time to commit to memory. I doubt if that fashion still obtains. Some of our public action looks as if it did not. "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political...
...historical experience. "Just as history justifies those laws issued half a century ago, which then provoked general dissatisfaction, so the President is confident that future history will justify what has been done." Rebuttal. The Mexican Episcopate issued a long and passionate rebuttal next day. One paragraph distilled the whole document to a sulphuric essence...