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...against the exterior manifestations of international antagonism will accomplish nothing, and even a return to the principle of parity, which would require sweeping concessions from the U. S., would only postpone the trouble. While one potential aggressor darkens the future, peace is only a truce, and if we would prolong that interlude, it is necessary to accomplish more than a reduction of navies...
Granting bigger scholarships to gifted students is one step to better the situation. But alloting stipends such as the Emergency Relief Administration maximum of $20 a month is only to prolong the misery. Nothing short of an economic revolution can provide everyone with funds sufficient for proper utilization of academic opportunity. Until then, the affirmation of President Dennett of Williams deserves attention: "What appears to be needed is not more college graduates, but fewer and better ones...
...closest to his heart as a Japanese Navy man. This issue all Japanese quarterdeckers passionately call "The 1935 Crisis." The Empire's life and honor are at stake, they insist, because in 1935 the U. S., Britain and Japan must, by treaty, hold a Naval Conference to alter or prolong the 5-5-3 ratio between their navies beyond...
Over the radio and by proclamation he addressed his city and the nation. "The unions in this strike have no grievances," said he. "Many of them have contracts with their employers which this strike will violate. . . . Those who seek to prolong this strike for their own selfish ends or to overthrow the government here in San Francisco or even the Government of the United States will be dealt with by every force of law and order. ....* I feel that we are confronted by the most serious situation which has beset us since the disaster of 1906. I therefore proclaim...
...Norway and Sweden between 1912 and 1919. He Stated, in so many words, that if the "blockade" of Germany had been really effective during 1915 and 1916, Germany would have been forced to her knees long before the collapse of Russia permitted her to prolong the struggle by throwing more troops into the trenches of the Western Front. And it is he who is responsible for the following statement: "In 1915 England exported twice as much nickel to Sweden as in the two previous years put together. Of the total imports of 504 tons, seventy were reshipped to Germany...