Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these payments which will mean so much to them later on. If they neglect to keep up the payments now, they will never again be able to take up government insurance at these low rates, because the Government policies are to be issued only to those who served the nation in the army or navy...
...right to regulate immigration must continue to be a right that each nation shall be free to interpret for itself...
Whatever the source of the ideals before a nation it is important to know that the men who form or interpret them are the leaders of its people. Their responsibility is so enormous that a false ideal set up by them may carry the work of a whole generation to no advance. The opportunity of a university lies in the training of these men. If the university insists upon interesting itself primarily with the culture of the past, a culture which was as new in its day as the present culture which the university ignores is today, then men will...
...educational value to the nation at large of the recent debate between Senator Lodge and President Lowell has proved even greater than was anticipated; previous discussions, with few exceptions did not appeal to the man in the street as practical; but everyone who heard or read the speeches delivered in Symphony Hall was able to grasp without difficulty the fundamental issues at stake. Although the attitudes of the speakers were not diametrically opposed there was considerable difference in the views expressed. We agree strongly with the position taken by President Lowell, and, as far as can be ascertained, the same...
...regret that in certain instances Senator Lodge did not make his position more clear. Although he declared him self in favor of a league he seemed to argue, both directly and by implication, against any league worthy of the name. As President Lowell showed so clearly a League of Nations must include certain minimum stipulations to which the signatories will agree: Senator Lodge seemed to oppose even those minimum stipulations. President Wilson has, by his ill advised action, laid the Covenant of Paris wide open to political attack, and some Republicans though Senator Lodge is of course not among them...