Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...consider the League of Nations at present is entirely useless. The great Powers have simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves. England and France in particular have got out of the treaty everything that they wanted, and the League, of Nations can do nothing to alter any of the unjust clause of the treaty except by unanimous consent of the members of the league, and the great Powers will never give their consent to changes in the interests of weaker peoples...
Obviously, that the purpose of the League is to maintain the settlements made by the treaty. As the Secretary points out, no positive action can be taken by the League without unanimous concent. Further, these arrangements have been made to the satisfaction of the great Powers...
...large members besieging the Army food stores in Boston is a proof of the dire straights to which people have been forced by the present high cost of living. For although all of us remember our daily mess in the service with great relish no doubt, nevertheless we would hardly stand in line all day for Army "grub" unless compelled to do so by dire necessity...
...truth of the matter is that a great portion of our population is in actual want of food. These Army stores, placed, in every city, are temporarily relieving a fraction of the poverty-stricken. But huge as these reservoirs seem to be, the supplies cannot last forever. More manufactured articles are needed. A year ago the slogan was "more conservation"; today it should be "more production...
Amending the treaty is a theoretical but impractical solution of this great problem. Doing so would, in the end, lead to inevitable turmoil. For, once the United States began offering reservations, other nations would follow suit; and then the whole affair would be amended out of its original conception...