Word: partizans
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...know its short but very eventful history, the Union is more of a curiosity than either a paragon or a menace. They saw its brave opening as a non-partizan organization. They heard the repeated assurances that it was a truly Harvard society, and then they watched it join at once the obviously radical National Student Union, and fall under the sway of a handful of typical campus radicals...
With domestic politics quiet for the moment, the equally political conference of the Allied Premiers over the eternal question of German reparations is again to the fore. The acridly partizan politics in Paris threaten as usual to hold up agreement upon the Experts' Plan. Yet the business community in the U. S., although heartily weary of futile European conferences, is unusually hopeful that this time some definite basis of concerted action regarding Germany can be secured. How much actual buying in U. S. markets this would develop, is problematical...
...only be followed through stubbornness and petty vexation; it seems unlikely that this will be the case. Vice versa, Congress, feeling that everything Democratic is to be shunned, may reject many helpful suggestions merely because they are originated by the losing party, thus handicapping itself and the country by partizan action...
...organization is strictly non-partizan in so far as politics are concerned, but it expects to take a leading role in the reconstruction program of the country. Eligibility for membership does not depend on length of service or the capacity in which the service was performed. Officers of every rank are admitted on the same footing and have equal voice in the conduct of the affairs of the society...
...people of the country cannot be hoodwinked with words. They know the men who fought for the Treaty, and they know the men who pledged themselves to scuttle it. The victory that Senator Lodge and his partizan friends have gained is a victory conceived in shame and born in dishonor. It has put the United States on record as the only great nation of the world which refuses to endorse measures preventive of future wars...