Word: humanitarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wilson has maintained toward Mexico, Mr. Paine says, "a policy of allowing the Mexicans to rid themselves of a government which, in conjunction with unscrupulous foreign capitalists, has exploited and robbed Mexico." The gentle and humanitarian policy of "allowing" the Mexicans to "rid themselves" of oppression, etc., has seemed rather more like a policy of unwarrantable and secretly conducted interference, to the end of destroying the only hope of stable government that Mexico possessed, of plunging her into the years of anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico...
Professor Ripley recently gave good advice when he urged men to attend the Sunday labor meetings in Faneuil Hall. College students are at the time of life when they need to become acquainted with every sort of problem in a broad, humanitarian way, without the prejudice of later years. Not only the problems of labor, but the financial, religious and diplomatic interest of the world need a first hand exploration which cannot be obtained inside the walls of a college...
...misfortune it is to harbor only blind and unreasoned opinions (and vague illusions as to how American sympathies ought to run and why, etc.), assume that humility implied in "understatement and restraint." Only when we can know the hard facts can we direct our sympathies with justice and our humanitarian endeavors with profit. N. J. SILBERLING...
...conclusion, Major Finley spoke of the immense importance of the Philippines to the United States both in their large area of over 800,000 square miles, immensely rich in natural resources, and as the key to our commercial expansion in the Orient. He said that for humanitarian, if for no other reasons, the army should remain in the Islands for many years to come, and that while the Moros were a race with many remarkable characteristics, they were in no way suited for self government, being accustomed to and respecting only a power which combined the civil and military control...
...Christian Church that it seems quite unwarrantable to omit it and reserve the other supernatural elements. In this respect, as in the belief in the immortality of the soul, there is no middle path to choose, for Christianity defies all attempts to compromise with any of the humanitarian or ethical codes. A man is either a Christian or a non-Christian in his beliefs...