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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa, made a speech in London urging a conference to settle the European problem of reparations, and pleaded for the active support of the U. S. Said he: " The greatest issue in international relations not only of Europe but of the whole world has come to the front. We are back in August, 1914. It is again the scrap of paper. . . . A very grave responsibility rests on France before history...
...this should become a fait accompli, Yugo-Slavia will once again enjoy the support of the greatest of Slav nations. With Pan-Germanism dead and buried and Der Drang nach Osten but a blurred memory, Russia, and with Russia Pan-Slavism, will be able to play an unrestricted role in the Balkans. Premier Pashitch of Yugoslavia is probably more aware of this than any living man. His reason for wanting to recognize Russia, after having withheld that honor so long, is that Communism has been so modified that it will not present any grave danger to the Yugo-Slavian State...
...former President of Amherst College explains in the November Harper's what he meant by asserting recently that the greatest danger confronting our colleges is that of being "drawn into the common life." But the prophets and apostles of the Ku Klux Klan propose to draw them in with a vengeance. Princeton is the latest to be told that she cannot remain "in her own little eddy of oblivion while the rising tide of the greatest moral and political movement sweeps by". This particular champion of the Klan, being a lady as well as a "bishop," is naturally strong...
...England, is perforce opposed to a Rhineland State, assumedly under the protection of France and joining in the dominating group of Europe the Little Entente, Poland and Belgium with France at the head. In the future it is conceivable that an alliance between Russia and Germany might be the greatest source of anxiety to English statesmen. But just at present it is France and her lesser associates, France with her powerful army, that is worrying Lord Curson and the rest...
When the ideas and the background of the Rhineland situation, reparations and national policies lie so misty in the minds of most, General Allen's impressions of Europe should be of the greatest value. People are weary of hearing about the "mess in Europe" but they are weary because they get nothing but second-hand reports and cross-reports. One may be sure that the words of the United States representative on the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission will be fresh, clarifying and weighty...