Word: european
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact that "all Europe is locked in a death-struggle" proves the possibility of an invasion of our country is not apparent. We have two land and two ocean frontiers. Where have any of the European belligerents been able to make an invasion from the sea? Can it be said that this war has shown anything but the futility of attempting over-seas operations against modern coast defenses and naval protection? Given adequate coast-defenses--and these I for one do not oppose--from what nation need we, after the lessons of the present war, fear any successful attack from...
...Orient is utterly imaginary, as anyone can verify by a conscientious study of Japanese problems. For instance, about 40 per cent of the total income of the Japanese people goes for taxes,--largely for the Chinese and Russian wars and their aftermath. As for Germany and all the other European nations, which we are told will invade America after this war, is it not clear that modern warfare requires first a long period of nursing the economic, financial, and human capital of the intended aggressor? that Germany's present successes are due primarily to her 40 years' peaceful accumulations...
...beginning of this war Americans felt that it was the price of the Balance of Power theory and the militarist policy of Europe in general and Prussia in particular. American ideals were not at all on that European plane, and yet today we see statesmen, business men and University leaders in full retreat for that precise European method of force, of piled up armaments and of an international power-magazine liable to instant explosion at the first spark. For America to resort to such European methods is to confess openly, as Lord Roseberry sees, that American aims and standards...
Norman Angell, a pacifist and journalist of wide experience in matters of diplomacy, will speak on "America and the European Settlement" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock...
Shortly before the outbreak of the present European war, Mr. Angell published a booklet which is of great significance now, as it treats of international conciliation. In regard to peace and its accompanying attributes, Mr. Angell writes: "What I have to urge upon your attention is not the desirability of peace in the sense of the cessation of combat, still less, of a cosmopolitanism which asks that you shall, in obedience to some abstract ideal of instinctive or intuitive origin, sacrifice national preferences and characteristics, or even prejudices. Indeed, I am not urging any cut-and-dried political doctrine...