Word: root
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most notable assembly speeches all bore upon the protocal: 1) Premier Paul Painleve of France asserted that his country had in no way abandoned the Protocol, expressed a strong desire to see it revived, and added, "no project for the maintenance of Peace will be effective unless it have root in the League." 2) Mr. Austen Chamberlain then again torpedoed the Protocol, in the name of Britain, declaring that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes" and preferred an extra-League Security Treaty...
...Elihu Root...
...great figures were, however, conspicuous by their absence. One, Elihu Root, whose speeches to the Association a decade and two decades ago are now classic, has passed through the portals of many years into a remote seclusion. One, the Chief Justice of the U. S., William Howard Taft, grandfather of ten, pride of his profession, remains vacationing in preparation for an arduous fall, winter, spring at his public post...
...Afraid not be back in time to help Washington root for Griffith [Clark Griffith, President of the Washington American League Baseball Club...
...hitherto been the weapons of the strong against the weak, are to give place to reason, cooperation and goodwill. Here America scores one of her greatest diplomatic triumphs: This is an adaptation of the Monroe Doctrine for the Orient. It is an American policy enunciated by Hay, formulated by Root and Hughes and promulgated by Kellogg...