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...Executive Committee of the Cambridge University Liberal Club on "The English Parallel". He said that the name Liberal was not a monopoly of any one country, but was universal and easily understood by all. He went on to tell of the Cambridge University Liberal Club, which conducted debates between Englishmen of national reputation upon subjects of current interest after each of which a ballot was held to determine the opinion of the students. The decided in favor of "The League of Nations" and "Disarmament" and deplored "America's Attitude Toward the Peace Treaty". He expressed a hope that the national...
...that in the United States the college graduate is attracted mainly by business and remunerative professions, while comparatively few enter polities. In England the case is exactly contrary; there Oxford and Cambridge, regarding public service a high and universal duty, recruits the House' of Commons from their-graduate ranks, Englishmen, then, appraise the situation here as anomalous...
...Parliament advising what course to pursue. In June, 1918, Lord Montagu presented his report, which ranks with Lord-Durham's famous report on Canada, and which has led to the adoption of the present diarchial form of government in India. This report, however, was not enough to convince many Englishmen of the necessity for a change until the condition of the country was brought home to them with unpleasant force by the outbreaks in the Punjab...
...atrocious blunder by the President. We must now lose the amity of Great Britain by a gross interference in her private affairs. The ancient rules of international relationship require that nations, at least officially, attend to their own affairs, and allow their sister nations to do likewise. Many Englishmen feel that we have worked great injustice in our negro problem. How would we welcome British interference on this subject...
...later dispute between England and France; how Lincoln was one of the only two men to vote right in the Illinois Legislature on a bill that touch the most impassioned issue of that day. Is there among us in America none of that pride that makes famous Englishmen dissent from the enraged majority no matter how hot the issue? In a time like this to be free means for a while to be misunderstood. Why not? Is the intellectual life to be all flabby, with no rugged stretches? Is hardihood to exist only in the body? Let us hear...