Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unofficially) is that, were we to get together publicly, the delegates would be continually influenced by public opinion in their own countries regarding the proceedings of the meeting. In short, were the conference to sit openly, no delegate would have the temerity to be first to concede anything for fear of public wrath. Here, indeed, is a powerful argument against open diplomacy--it allows the people to say what they want done. He much prefers that we should discuss the matter "sub rosa", at the meetings of the Supreme Council, for example, where there is no danger of interference...
...third play, "The Blind", by Maurice Maeterlinck, is remarkable for the dominating note of fear expressed by the twelve blind men and women who are lost in a wood. Then, as evening comes and the chill of night fills the wood, not only the players seem chilled by the cold but the audience itself is irresistibly affected, so great is the author's power of vividly reproducing human sensation...
...written a more ridiculous satire of Yale than this young man. Harvard men must not miss this epic of Siwash, Conn. "The Big Year" (Pulnam's) if it came from Cambridge, would be screamingly funny. As New Have propagands, it is a joke, all right, but not, we fear, by inteution...
...idyllic day when property could be left without fear of destruction has passed. Lawlessness has become too common to excite surprise and has reached a stage where it is seriously threatening the life and property of citizens. Practically all New England states are considering the possible advantages of state constabularies and the time is not far off when every commonwealth will have its state police...
Perhaps the greatest service that the Rhodes scholarships can do this country is the promotion of international good understanding, and a sympathetic appreciation of England is a good acquisition for any of us. But let no one fear that Oxford will feed him with sentimental ideas about Anglo-Saxondom or inoculate him with any brand of imperialism. Much nonsense of that sort is being written in this country at present, with quotations of certain rash utterances of that amazing genius, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes saw one thing clearly, that mutual understanding between this country, Great Britain and the dominions, having...