Word: happened
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officer must exercise self-control even under the most trying circumstances, even when someone has blundered. There will be a lot of mistakes made; we expect them; they are bound to happen. But when the game begins, do your command as it is given. Back your officer, back your country, back your Government. There must be team play, regardless of whether or not we think the command is the right...
...summary of the treaties and international law bearing on the case, Professor Hart points out that it is clear that any provision therein made or proposed was for the purpose of giving "to innocent owners of vessels and cargoes which happen to be caught in what becomes an enemy's port an opportunity to save their ships and lading." Neither the treaties nor the law, however, foresaw nor took account of the peculiar circumstances of the German ships in the ports of the United States...
Finally, we are told that "democracy demands a general referendum before a declaration of war." And what is to happen to us while the referendum vote is being taken? In the present controversy Germany could continue to kill our people, to sink our ships, could send submarines into our harbors while we peacefully prepared to vote, telling her to be careful since we might vote against allowing her to continue. What a disappointment such a vote would be to Germany! How hurt she would feel to have her fun stopped! It might even make her angry...
...prepare themselves most efficiently in a military way for their country's service. Preparation does not predicate war. On the contrary it looks clearly, with no false prejudice, at the future. The self-hypnotism which causes a man to believe that what he does not want will never happen is akin to destruction. The future does not hold in store the peace we wish, but the war Germany may possibly provoke...
...where they have been tortured, and some cases executed. A compulsory military system has small room for private conscience. It is a truism that England is as democratic a country as the United States. Would a compulsory military law work differently in this country? An indication of what would happen here is shown in the working of the Slater Bill recently passed in New York State, requiring military training of all school children, not even excepting the children of Quakers. To us as ministers of Christ and lovers of democracy the compulsion of conscience is abhorrent, but with compulsory training...