Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty's Government have been at pains to make it clear in the past that interference with these regions cannot be suffered. Their protection against attack is to the British Empire a measure of self-defense. It must be clearly understood that his Majesty's Government in Great Britain accept the new treaty upon the distinct understanding that it does not prejudice their freedom of action in this respect. The Government of the United States has comparable interests, any disregard of which by a foreign power, they have declared that they would regard as an unfriendly...
...last sentence refers to a recent speech by Mr. Kellogg before the American Society of International Law, wherein he declared that a nation signatory to the Kellogg Pact would not be deprived of the right to make war in self defense. This interpretation the British have now broadened to mean virtually that any war in which His Majesty's Government may choose to engage will be pro facto a war of self defense...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin betook his homespun, sterling self to Manchester, last week, and spoke words of chastening counsel. Addressing a potent luncheon group of Lancashire cotton tycoons he pointedly intimated that the capital structures of many of their firms are topheavy and must be scaled down. As he often does, Mr. Baldwin took his text from the iron & steel industry which is the basis of his family fortune, and spoke with a certain rugged candor thus: "I am going with my own trade, the steel trade, through deep waters. Most of what I had was in that industry...
Complete freedom of self determination is an eighteenth century ideal which has never been further from realization than at the present day. Harvard has for many years allowed its students as full a measure of individual freedom as possible. But this measure has never been, nor ever can be, complete. From time to time circumstances are bound to arise necessitating restrictions on certain phases of an idealistically complete liberty of action and choice. The decision to bar undergraduates from residence in apartment houses need not be viewed with alarm by students as an encroachment on their inherent right of freedom...
...ambition of the Cornell plan is primarily preventative; it will attempt merely, avers the Cornell Sun, to prevent the fevered cramming that precedes examinations. Its effort will be directed to a sound recapitulation of knowledge delivered, rather than reliance on the individual for a period of self-education...