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...only have all our states been founded on a religious motive, but since the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, every crisis in our country has been met with religion. Religion is indispensible, for it is the only possible safeguard for the continuance of our national order. There must be something above all to which all can appeal and from which all may receive equal judgment, and this alone can be religion...
...requires." Shrewd, they added a paragraph which their rambunctious Mayor William Hale Thompson would understand: "We have become convinced that the present situation is a real crisis. It concerns a million parents -all voters-with enough power to enforce any demands they decide must be made to safeguard their children's interests...
Also, a pertinent question arises as to whether M. Poincare's stand on the tariff is not derived from a desire to bargain for a safeguard clause* in the debt disaccord with the U. S., which the French Parliament refuses to ratify...
Georges Clemenceau, "Tiger" War Premier of France: "He told me he was going to get rid of Joffre, who was too old and too slow and who had taken no precautions to safeguard Verdun...
Premier Raymond Poincarè, who also functions as Finance Minister, issued a statement to the effect that he was "working upon a solution of the question." The great difficulty involved is 1) to get the Chamber and Senate to approve the Mellon-Berenger accord without a safeguarding clause (entitling France to stop payments to her creditors should Germany cease her reparation payments) or 2) to get Washington to accept the proposed safeguard clause...