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...extreme regards the whole thing as an iniquitous, damnable "foreign entanglement." Obviously, with such intolerance, nothing can be accomplished. The general public lies between these antipodes, but the general public is practically inarticulate. This referendum therefore offers the first opportunity for the public to decide on the League per se; always providing that the public reads and digests the Plan itself, and does not swallow the misleading summary kindly printed on the ballots...
...Parisien and close friend of Premier Poincaré) for an informal discussion of Franco-American relations. Afterwards, M. Jusserand was asked by reporters what M. Dupuy had had to say. The Ambassador, who like the French Senator is a newspaper man, replied with a French proverb: "Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux" (literally, "The wolves do not eat themselves among one another...
When the S. S. Essequibo arrived in Manhattan a story was unfolded of a plot to kidnap the autocratic President of Peru, Señor A. B. Leguia...
When Henry David Thoreau was jailed because he objected to paying taxes, his friend Emerson came and stood outside the bars. "Henry," he demanded, sadly, "why are you there?" "Waldo," returned the prisoner accusingly, "why aren't you here?" This attitude of non-conformity per se is reflected in the opinions of Dr. A. Herbert Gray, a well known Scottish clergyman, who has contributed an article to a current number of the "intercollegian...
...Vault or behind a wire mesh, but they suffer correspondingly in that they are thus completely cut off from the reading world. After all, a book must necessarily cherish a yearning to perform its function of imparting its con tents. There is little satisfaction in social position per se if no one bothers to find out how it was attained...