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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since governments act very often on the basis of documents, notes, telegrams, cabled messages and written memoranda, why do not unscrupulous propagandists introduce forged documents before the eyes, of statesmen whose minds they seek to influence? They do. Such forgery is constantly practiced, and as constantly guarded against by all responsible governments. Last week the New York World announced that one of its correspondents had become aware in Washington of an adept propaganda forger who made the following proposition...
...entire week covering the Albania-Jugoslav frontier from Greece to the Adriatic for the Chicago Tribune. His motor car, he cabled, was the first through the mile- high, snow-covered uplands since December. A broken connecting rod meant getting another car, and friendly peasants shoveled much snow and pushed often and mightily. "I visited every garrison, outpost and supply depot," cabled thoroughgoing Correspondent Rue, concluding that in his opinion the Jugoslavs were emphatically not mobilized last week...
...others of its league. These games are studiously arranged in series of three, four or five to avoid conflicting exhibitions between leagues, to hold traveling expenses (borne by the owners) to a minimum. Games are played under a rigid, comprehensive set of rules and regulations, enforced by three (often four) militant umpires, responsible: 1) to their league presidents, 2) to onetime Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, $65,000-a-year high commissioner of the entire operation...
...would be useless to repeat the reasons, often stated before, why I am unshaken in my conviction that the European war was forced upon Germany by the aggressive coalition of her three neighbors. . . . It would be useless to state once more the reasons why I cannot think of Germany as an autocracy, but must continue to think of her as a country where the enlightened leadership of administrative experts, endowed with large responsibility devoted to the public welfare, guided if not controlled by popular supervision, has brought about a type of citizenship and a state of society as healthy...
Older people often complain of the one-sidedness of youth, deploring their lack of mature wisdom. Suppose there were a community in which all the young people were equipped with the mature and more casual point of view of men of 40 or 50 years old: How dull, how uninteresting that community would be! And among the first to raise a howl would be the older generation...