Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hard to give up nine hours a week to military training when the snow is on the ground, and the mere possibility of taking the field is as remote as the rulers of the nation are able to make it. It is hard to have to make all the trifling sacrifices which the present plan of training demands, but afternoons at the movies or at the ball park will avail a man but little when his company is facing maxims and barbed wire...
...wise and the necessary thing to do. We have been cautious and prudent. We have been patient to the verge of dishonor. At length it is permitted us to go forward, one in thought and deed, and to be in the sight of all men that high-spirited nation that...
...reconcile such a paradox? Here are hundreds of men willing to die in defence of their country. But these same men treat with supreme indifference a concrete, immediate opportunity to strengthen the nation's defensive power and to increase their own military efficiency. There is but one explanation to the puzzle--despite their 11th hour devotion they are not patriots. For a patriot is always ready to fulfill the needs of his country, and our country has as great a need now for volunteer officers, under training, as she will have for a million raw recruits when war is declared...
...would be well if we could put off till tomorrow what seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off, not by the desires of one nation, nor the delay of its young men. Preparation against calamity takes long. Yet calamity itself comes suddenly, overnight. We are so near war now that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom...
Even now, when this nation and Germany are in a position so unhappy and so perilous, the tribute of men of action to a man of action should not pass unmarked. We pride ourselves that we are a nation of sportsmen. It was the sportsmanlike thing that these commanders did America has no quarrel with amicable guests beneath the shelter of her flag...