Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While the war is being universally renounced as an instrument of national policy, the recent conduct of the Japanese troops in Manchuria, ravaging the sovereign domain of China, is an obstacle to the peace and happiness of all mankind. We, the Chinese students at Harvard University, have watched the development of the situation with particular concern, and feel impelled to submit to the world a statement of facts for its candid judgment...
...appreciate the move taken by the League of Nations and the government of the United States in urging an immediate cessation of hostilities. Japan must either give up completely the places unlawfully occupied or become once and for all the enemy of the peace of mankind. The spirit of the League Covenant, the Washington Treaty, and the Kellogg Pact must not be suffered to die at the hands of Japanese aggression...
...only horticulturalist but also businessman and clubman, it has long been the ambition of David Burpee to take over the unfinished work of Luther Burbank. And that work he will carry on, he says, as Burbank did: in a scientific spirit, not a commercial one, in the interest of mankind. Also he hopes to bring greater resources to the experiments than Burbank was ever able to command. Some of the work will be done at Burpee farms in the East but most of it will be done in the tight two acres of Burbank's own garden...
...Belief in the equality of all mankind...
...oldest martyr people in the world! What pen can describe the wrongs and cruelties we have borne in the course of thousands of years? What good the nations have done us by such action as the Balfour Declaration is not kindness. Shall we now be driven into mistrust of mankind?" Fervently he quoted a Jew from Kishinev who cried: "God save us from commissions and we'll save ourselves from pogroms...