Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well be termed a book "hog"--an individual whose motto seems to be "Education at any price". After stating on the receipt filled out at the reading room desk that he will sit at a certain table, such a person deliberately goes else where so that when the time limit of one hour is up, he can continue to use the book unmolested, although others are waiting. Such action can not be excused on the grounds of carelessness or ignorance; it is taken for granted that students can read the few simple library rules that are printed plainly in black...
...limitation of armaments is important, but it is not decisive as an agency of peace. National armament is the creature of national policy. If a nation cherishes policies which impair the freedom and prevent the development of other nations, it is bound to arm in self-protection against the resentment and the fear of other nations. It may agree temporarily to limit its armament, provided those who suffer from its aggression or are opposed to its pretensions agree to a similar limitation. But in that event disarmament is an advantage to the aggressor. It frees his hand. The helplessness...
...peace-loving statesman fails to obtain the guarantee, he will not delude himself with the idea that by disarming he has protected China, diminished the occasion for future war or promoted the security of the world. The Administration has done well to associate the proposal to limit naval armaments with the proposal to do away with one of the chief reasons for their existence. It would not do well to insist on the limitation without having succeeded in securing its regional international agreement. The public should test its work by its success in eradicating the causes of international fear, hostility...
...limitation of armaments is important, but it is not decisive as an agency of peace. National armament is the creature of national policy. If a nation cherishes policies which impair the freedom and prevent the development of other nations, it is bound to arm in self-protection against the resentment and the fear of other nations. It may agree temporarily to limit its armament, provided those who suffer from its aggression or are opposed to its pretensions agree to a similar limitation. But in that event disarmament is an advantage to the aggressor. It frees his hand. The helplessness...
...peace-loving statesman fails to obtain the guarantee, he will not delude himself with the idea that by disarming he has protected China, diminished the occasion for future war or promoted the security of the world. The Administration has done well to associate the proposal to limit naval armaments with the proposal to do away with one of the chief reasons for their existence. It would not do well to insist on the limitation without having succeeded in securing its regional international agreement. The public should test its work by its success in eradicating the causes of international fear, hostility...