Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even without this revealing hint of what the Roosevelts talk about at table, last week's conference would have been newsworthy. It brought out 1) that Eleanor Roosevelt intends to be inveigled into no wasp-waist corsets this fall; 2) that the delicate White House problem of arranging diplomatic functions this season has been given over to the State Department. The President last week, for reasons of policy (see p. 11), kept an extremely circumspect silence, and Eleanor Roosevelt had to make news enough for two. She did it by expanding, under polite questioning, on her skins-and-pockets...
...believe in neutrality, i.e., in not entering the war. I believe most Americans feel the same way. I think they are agreed on their determination to keep out. The means of keeping out is the problem. And it would appear that the organizing committee of the American Independence League would do better to take a stand on the means than on an end already desired by most people...
...second stage has begun with respect to tutoring at Harvard. The University has been fully aroused and has now commenced a major offensive against the problem. No one can doubt its business-like intent after reading the details of the new University-sponsored tutoring bureau...
Perhaps he would grow in understanding if he attacked the problem from an entirely different angle. Instead of attempting to solve issues already confused by misleading propaganda, why not study the nature of war itself? What conditions are necessary to cause this phenomenon which makes men kill their own kind? Perhaps it only requires a single man to bring about such a catastrophe; perhaps factors over which humans have no control are involved. The answer to this question alone should go far toward helping him decide between intervention and isolation...
Whatever the situation in the country will be there is still the problem of the Eastern competition which will probably be stiffer this next year than last...