Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vicious Circle. The U. S. is perhaps most willing of all the Powers to meet th& Chinese with concessions. But the trouble is that the general attitude of the Powers is that a stable government well disposed and able to protect foreigners, their property and concessions must be established before they will give up their special rights and privileges under present treaties. Yet, the condition is such, according to most observers, that the prospect of developing a stable and powerful government because of increasing anti-foreign sentiment lies only in that government's securing the abrogation of those special...
...representatives will be Minister MacMurray and Silas Strawn, famed Chicago lawyer, who was once very nearly appointed Attorney General by President Coolidge. On these two will rest the greatest burden of steering a middle course. For they will have U. S. citizens to protect, and the facts of the Chinese situation to face as well as the demands of the powers who would like a great number of desirable things which probably are not obtainable...
...That the new way does not properly protect the U. S. against immigrants with physical defects or diseases, since several weeks may elapse between the time of an immigrant's receiving his physical examination abroad and his sailing, and since the second examination on shipboard can not be thorough...
These people are ignorant of the law. It is true that the Romans observed the law that their language so nobly expresses ; true that the Code Napoleon is strict in its provisions protecting the dead from defamation; true that in Italy a man can protect in court the good name of his dead. But anywhere in the U. S. except in the State of Louisiana, anywhere in the British Empire except in the Province of Quebec, a dead man can be defamed without hindrance...
...need hardly be added that this law did not have its origin in bigotry. The majority is not trying to establish a religion or to teach it-it is trying to protect itself from the effort of an insolent minority to force irreligion upon the children under the guise of teaching Science...