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...brought added social responsibility and emoluments not in proportion to the increasing requisite expenditures, this country has lost many able diplomats. However, steps are being taken to mitigate the present evil and to bring about circumstances in which the diplomat with wealth is not preferred to the servant with manifest ability in appointments to the more important posts...
...Certainly by 1950 at the rate we're now going the disbursements for veteran relief will equal if not exceed the total cost of our expenditures during the World War [$21,850,000,000]. . . . Veterans must manifest a peacetime patriotism in future demands comparable to that which brought them honor in the War if the burden upon the Government is not to become intolerable and reaction impair their cause. If we teach our young men that service to our country means the Government thereafter must reward them irrespective of need, then we are undermining the very foundation of good citizenship...
...commemoration of a spirit. Most of the men who died, it may be assumed, died in the firm conviction that they were dying to make the world a better place for their followers to live in a world without war. Any memorial, therefore, which inculcates the spirit that is manifest in the Sargeant murals in Widener Library is a blasphemous sacrilege to their memory. The spirit of the memorial chapel should be one of reverence for an ideal rather than of the flag-waving nationalism which usually infests such buildings. That we may have since lost our illusions about...
...that the British trade unions have been so slow to manifest any kind of sympathy with their fellow-workmen in Russia? Their indifference is a shocking example of the blinding effect of class bias on the great mass of the people...
...Manifest destiny; national expansion and sectional conflict of American History, 1843-1864," Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall...