Word: moment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once again the French Cabinet has been forced to resign by an adverse vote of the Chamber of Deputies. At the very moment when complete unity of the Allies is more than ever necessary, the plan for an Inter-Allied War Council is jeopardised by the action of the French legislation. The much vaunted "sacred union" of political parties has been unable to withstand the strain of three years of hostilities, for the conflict of political groups is raging as bitterly as before the war, and personal prejudice against ministers, regardless of their qualifications, has more than once determined their...
This is the message Major Ian Hay Beith gave to the Law School Society and the Graduate School Society yesterday evening. But such optimism as Ian Hay's must not be the cause of one moment's delay in our war preparations and in our firm dealing with all who hinder these preparations. Just as the Allies are concentrating all military affairs in one supreme command, so must we bend all our energies at home to the same united end. It is good to hear words of cheer, but they must lead only to greater determination...
...been estimated that seventeen billion dollars have been invested in American carriers, and short sighted is the government which for political reasons, is going to prevent such investors from getting a reasonable return on their money. Of all enterprises, the Railroads are the only ones at the present moment which cannot increase their prices proportionally to their expenses. And when by the Adamson law the hours of labor have been cut down, when labor itself is ever scarcer and ever higher paid, and when at the same time coal, steel, and other commodities are soaring in price, a net loss...
...both in London and Paris. Next he criticizes the British fleet for not rushing headlong into the Baltic, now that the Germans are operating there, knowing well the utter impossibility of such an undertaking; incidentally the British might well ask what the Russan fleet is doing at the present moment...
...this reason that they deserve the serious consideration of the allies who would do well to make a similar trial at least in the solution of those problems which are not the less important because they are difficult or because they are seemingly subordinate to the questions of the moment...