Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also to settle disputes "by pacific means." Furthermore, as Senator Borah stated last week, as Secretary Kellogg has previously said before the Foreign Relations Committee, the treaty should not be regarded as affecting in any manner the right of any signatory to go to war in what it considers self-defense...
...Compulsion. Inasmuch as virtually all modern wars are theoretically wars of self-defense, the question immediately arose as to what would prevent a war between two nations, each going to battle under a self-defense plea. Senator Borah admitted that the treaty in no way prevented such a possibility. "A nation must answer to the tribunal of public opinion as to her right to go to war," said he. "The only censor of her action is the power of public opinion...
British Monroe Doctrine. Advocates of treaty reservations point out that sev eral of the signatories have already sharply defined their individual attitudes regarding the agreement's scope and meaning. Great Britain, for example, has issued (TIME, July 30) a very sweeping statement that her right to self-defense includes the right to take whatever measures ap pear necessary in whatever portion of the world British safety may be threatened. Senator Borah said that the Chamberlain note meant nothing at all, inasmuch as it guaranteed to Great Britain nothing that was not already implicit in the treaty...
...Daughter Alicia napped and Publisher Patterson read Spanish papers, the amphibian proceeded to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Waspish U. S. Army pursuit planes rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle where...
Abnormal psychology provides a double-barrelled benefit to its devotees; for it is not only a field which calls forth all one's resources of imaginative empathy and ordering reason; but it exposes the self to the self. In every psychosis one sees fragmentary versions of oneself dissected out by disease. This leads inevitably to self-revelation and progressive insights. Metaphorically speaking, such experiences expand consciousness. In James' language "I the Knower" looks into the psychic mirror and sees a larger "Me the Known...