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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...justification for this insistence upon a plan of world organization which assembles the sheep and the goats in one fold is that the world has tried and failed in all other methods of keeping civilization afloat. Another war like that through which the world, is still passing, would throw the governments of most of the world into chaos, would break in pieces the remaining world powers, and would in the end destroy democracy and the democratic countries together...
...would be very comfortable if the United States could tuck its head under its wing, and enjoy a dove-like sleep while the rest of the world was in flames. That is simply impossible. The policy of Washington and Jefferson applied to the conditions and times of Washington and Jefferson. The Monroe Doctrine was necessary when it was possible for the United States-to keep out of world politics. A country like ours, with possessions in Asia, in the North Pacific, in the Caribbean, in Central America, simply cannot carry out a policy of isolation. Nor can the richest country...
...asked to give up no part of our constitution, our system of government, our laws, our possessions, except the present right to make war when we think best, for reasons that satisfy us, against any other nation that we see fit. This is a small privilege to a nation like ours, which is essentially pacific. In return for that concession we get two great privileges. The first is an assurance against the return of the frightful conditions which led to the present war, into which we were forced whether' we would or no. In the second place, the vast influence...
Clemenceau as been to France what Roosevelt was to America. He has been a physician of prominence, a war-correspondent, a soldier, a teacher in a girl's seminary at Stamford, Connecticut, a duellist, a critic, a playwright and above all a journalist. Like Roosevelt a firm believer in the big stick, he has clubbed his way to the top by the sheer force of his convictions. He roused the enmity of the socialists by the vigor with which he used the military to quell the mining strikes in the Pas de Calais department in 1906. He fired the wrath...
...fall of 1917", he said, "I had the honor of seeing much of Major James Shannon, later Lieut-Col., the officer who did such splendid work with the R. O. T. C. Although he disliked staff work and longed to be with the army in the field, like the good soldier that he was, he did not complain and was considered one of the most capable officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going into action that very morning. He was killed...