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...essential at the outset that His Majesty's Government should make it clear that they will not be moved by any pressure or threats . . . from pursuit of a policy which aims at promoting the interests of the inhabitants of Palestine, both Arabs and Jews, in a manner consistent with the obligations which the mandate imposes...
...Fitzgerald, who studied, I believe, at Harvard less than ten years ago, has dedicated his book to Charles Townsend Copeland. "Gentlemen All", it might as well be said at the outset, is probably not the best book that has been dedicated to the professor of Hollis Hall...
...importance is the fresh light Major Butt's letters throw on the breach between Roosevelt and Taft which culminated in 1912 with the formation of the Bull Moose party and the election of Woodrow Wilson. President Taft loved Col. Roosevelt but Mrs. Taft suspected his designs from the outset. The first trouble apparently occurred when President Taft, in a farewell letter to Col. Roosevelt on his departure for Africa, divided credit for his elevation to the Presidency between the Colonel and his brother Charles Taft. Roosevelt resented this division, never answered the letter. Roosevelt continued to feel that Taft...
...universal prediction at the outset of 1930 was that construction, long low, would zoom under the impetus of cheap money and the many Hoover-pleas. Last week were published figures indicating that the long-awaited zoom will have to be a terrific one the next six months if 1930 is to be known as a good construction year...
...application of ornithological precepts to the realties of a big game hunt is at best a futile, at worst a fatal procedure. In India, Ghandi has salted the lion's tall and has been rewarded with a growl which bodes ill for the experiment. At the outset the novelty of his methods so perplexed an administration habituated to gestures of a more conventional nature that the situation developed into a diplomatic sparring match of considerable entertainment to spectators with a taste for intrigue of a musical comedy variety...