Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only regret is that I cannot stay longer. It was difficult to get away. His Majesty was good enough to let me get out of the country for this visit and the time of my stay has been stretched to seventeen days...
...smiles were to welcome the audience and remind it that the Institute is wholly voluntary and unofficial, deliberative and not for action. "We are forever tinkering the machinery of Government," said Dr. Garfield. "Why not let it stand as it is ... when by the simple device of conference we may accomplish all that is desirable? Conference, the educational method, is the most potent . . . because it dispels ignorance and drives out fear; it discovers men of good will and substitutes the common welfare for common avarice...
...Let an "American society of nations" be formed in the western hemisphere.?Guy Stevens, director of the American Association of Oil Producers in Mexico...
Disarmament. Anglo-U. S. friendship is a sturdy plant. Let us desist pulling it up to inspect the roots. England is as wholly committed to disarming as the U. S. Let nations simply understand and respect one another's practical requirements.?Sir Arthur Willert of the British Foreign Office, long U. S. correspondent cf the London Times...
...Tuchuns. Let the Tuchuns (provincial war lords) of China form a "council of elders" to federate, if not unite, their disorganized portion of the globe into some semblance of a political entity with which the Powers can deal.?Professor Harold S. Quigley of the University of Minnesota...