Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be harmful." The Mainkhi of Osaka said: "Russia has now gained a strategic advantage over Japan owing to the recognition accorded her by Britain. . . We ought to be very attentive to the changing situation in Europe." The Tokyo Asahi said: "Woe to our statesmen who have not the keen insight to discern the trend of the times. It is a great pity the State ministers have not the courage to carry out their own convictions. Jealousy and prejudice are ever growing graver detriments to this Empire." There was nothing to indicate that Japan would give immediate attention...
TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE-F. N. Keen-With an Introduction by Professor Gilbert Murray-Harcourt, Brace...
...Keen starts in 1915 with the idea of a "superstate" equipped with an executive council (the members of which should be chosen on a population basis) and full power to alter boundaries and settle disputes, an international World Court (espoused by the late U. S. President Harding in 1923), an international body of laws and an international army to enforce those laws. He advocates an international currency. The author traces the various schemes, from the prospectuses of the British League of Nations Society and the American League to Enforce Peace, to their fruition in the actual League of Nations...
...capable cast headed by Norman Trevor and Mrs. Thomas Whiffen demonstrates the author's thesis with keen conviction. Yet probably the most valuable feature of the proceedings is the author's observant photography of the vast sum of little things that go to make up life in an upper middle class family of the Middle West...
...Wickersham held the post of Attorney-General under President Taft from 1909-13, and received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1921. As a Republican who has taken a keen interest in promoting the Bok Peace campaign, he is eminently fitted to discuss the Plan from an authoritative and non-partisan point of view...