Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole University is far from a cross section of its opinion. All that the vote shows is that there is in the University as elsewhere a determined group--a fairly sizable group--of active pro-Leaguers who found in the Plan a real step toward eventual League membership and voted "Yes" en Masse, and a much smaller group, just as determined that no steps leading anywhere near the League shall be taken, which voted "No." Pretty certainly some undefinite number of those who found the Plan not strong enough and of those who found it a little too strong...
...membership of the committees is : U. S.: Owen D. Young, General C. G. Dawes, Henry M. Robinson; Great Britain: Sir Robert Kindersley, Sir J. C. Stamp, Reginald McKenna; Italy: Dr. Alberto Pirelli, Professor Frederico Flora, Dr. Mario Alberts; Belgium: MM. Francqui, Hontard, Janssens...
...Propose that membership in the league should be opened to all nations...
...Propose that membership in the league should be opened to all nations...
...with the League of Nations more closely than we have heretofore. In detail, the plan suggests certain necessary and almost inevitable modifications of the Covenant of the League, it acknowledges that we should be a member of the League, and it proposes an immediate step in the direction of membership. The Jury of Award--consisting of Elihu Root, James Guthrie Harbord, Edward M. House, Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Roscoe Pound, William Allen White, and Brand Whitlock--has endorsed this plan as the best, part- ly because it represents the general opinions expressed by the 22, 156 plans placed before the Jury...