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...Great Britain is guilty of the gravest betrayal of a most sacred trust!" cried Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, President of the Zionist Organization of America. "We Jews found Palestine an almost abandoned waste. Under the mandate of Britain we transformed that waste into a high civilization! [The Report] attempts to set up another spurious Arab kingdom, strikes at the very heart of Jewish hopes and is an affront to the League of Nations...
Whether the Government, or for that matter any government, possesses the power to control such forces once they are set loose is open to the gravest doubts. History certainly shows cases where governmental power, even to the extent of life and death, has failed to check runaway inflation. But whether or not the United States is standing on the brink of a precipice, any control, except for direct monetary efforts, "must mean a personal government of relatively unrestrained power". Backed by the dictation of closely knit labor armies and freed from restraint by a judiciary stripped of its independence...
munity." Unless this national conscience is satisfied, I fear the gravest consequences...
...year when they are free to speak up without cocking a cautious eye at their school boards. Atlanta's Superintendent Willis A. Sutton complained: "The problem of continuing a progressive program, and at the same time being able to continue in office, constitutes one of the gravest dangers to a Superintendent of Schools. The displacement of men in high positions at the strategic centres of our country has been the shame of education in the past decade." Superintendent Sutton had to mention no names, for fox-bearded William Andrew McAndrew, who was ridden out of his Chicago superintendency...
...deputies, the restoration of our people's honor which outwardly found expression in the reintroduction of conscription, the creation of the air army, the rebuilding of the German navy and the reoccupation of the Rhineland were for me the expression of the gravest, most daring resolutions and labors of my life...