Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deeply appreciated than in collegiate and amateur athletics. The leading men on the gridiron and the diamond disappeared from their wonted places to take up the grimmer game for the sake of country. Nine of the ten ranking tennis players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged in the manufacture of munitions. But it is now appreciated that the maintenance of the standards of our amateur athletics is of great importance as an auxiliary to war. It is far better to develop the boys "back home" for future service than...
President Wilson has clearly presented the war aims of our nation. We desire no material advantage for our part. We are fighting for the very right of all peoples to decide the political fate of the territory they occupy. When the war is ended we can not have it said that we sanctioned the invasion of a second Belgium. We can only oppose a move which bears all the marks of selfish aggression and which impugns the honor of our purpose...
Moreover, in our foreign relations we must maintain a national integrity. An Eastern invasion of Russia, no matter how strong the call of necessity, would indeed involve a breach of faith. We have no quarrel with the Russian people. A Japanese army, at the most, could penetrate but a few of the many miles toward offering an active opposition to the Central Powers. A Japanese invasion could only be a blow in the dark at Russia, a nation convulsed in the enormity of its own problems, certainly not an enemy of the Allied cause...
...must certainly be its result, we can find no just reason for an American approval of the step. The need of concentrating all our energies upon the Western Front, and the avoidance of steps which may lead to irreparable stains upon the sublimity of our cause must guide our nation in the consideration of this harmful and ill-timed proposal...
When we turn to the German people, we observe the same intolerance. The press is absolutely and unqualifiedly opposed to anything which may be proposed from that source. It refuses all consideration for those things which bear the Imperial stamp. Now we offer no brief for the German nation. We have found in their offers no basis for a just peace. We maintain the principle that they as yet lack the good faith which is so essential to the final settlement. Yet it seems that such an intolerant attitude is the blindness of a superficial patriotism. Only by earnestly watching...