Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Secretary Baker has issued this message to the nation in behalf of the American Red Cross War Fund campaign...
...another way the limitations upon luxuries must be tempered by a consideration of possible effects upon our industrial organization. To prohibit suddenly the manufacture of certain articles would be to throw numbers of men out of work, to render families dependent, and to demoralize the whole nation. The process must be a gradual one which will recognize that society cannot be reorganized...
There has been no more perplexing problem of politics in the history of any nation than England's Irish question. In the present crisis it has assumed so serious a character that it present a direct obstacle to a successful prosecution of the war. Conscription and home rule are inseparably bound up with racial and political prejudice. They involve the danger of great discord in British unity. They must be looked upon in two lights, that of justice and that of expediency...
...increase. They know that they are engaged in a struggle which is sapping every energy and which is beginning an unlimited drain upon their every resource. Their response has been not only sufficient, but has been given in the spirit of willingness which is the great source of this nation's strength. This week they are called upon to contribute to the American Red Cross. That they will not be found wanting can only be assured through the co-operation of every individual citizen...
...less than the creation of a second West Point, with certain additional advantages of access to the treasures of cultural learning which are at Princeton. At a time when no man can foresee either the full extent of the military demand which the present war will make upon the nation before it is done or the nature of the new problems which will come after it, this effort to assist a thoroughgoing preparedness is of much value...