Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wilson to use "thoughtful deliberation rather than hasty or injudicious action." To those who keep in mind the previous policies of the President, this portion of the platform seems rather useless. The most rabid Republican would never accuse him of being hasty or injudicious in making war on foreign nations. And again we are informed that "there is general misunderstanding and unnecessary alarm." This assertion is ridiculcus. At no time have the press and public been calmer in the face of war, or given greater evidence of self-control. This body of patriots does not desire a war "from which...
...loyal American wants war when an honorable peace can exist. At this critical time the President is backed against the wall by the insidious perfidy of a foreign nation. He is not overwhelmed by telegrams demanding war, though millions believe that it is the only honorable course to pursue; he is swamped with peace appeals from well-organized German and "peace at any price" societies. The nation knows that Woodrow Wilson will not declare war unless it is the last resort. He should be left unhampered by the doubtful exhortations of pacifists. If Mr. Wilson decides that we must have...
...struggle. Let every Harvard man frown on the suggestion that war be preceded by an ugly campaign of recriminations to see whether Mr. Bryan's views or the President's views shall prevail. Imagine your country torn into two camps. Imagine smooth tongues and vitriolic pens hired perhaps by foreign gold, exasperating the community with cries of "Peace! Peace! Vote for Peace!" Imagine an alliance between the spineless pacifist and the American, if there be such, of foreign blood whose allegiance lies with the country of his birth, not with the country of his adoption. Imagine insidious writings and insidious...
...that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach Vivian Nickalls. English crews in English rigged shells have been almost uniformly successful in the Henley races...
...America would seem far less real if it increased its military power to first-class standing after the organization of a world league, than if it were to do so now, when the less theoretical argument of the possible necessity of defence is more reasonable, in the eyes of foreign nations, than that of a possible entrance into world politics