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...British Parliament has been virtually promised by Mr. Bonar Law. In essentials, the new constitution follows the British North American Act which gave dominion independence to Canada. If this form of government proves as successful in Ireland as it has worked out in Canada, the out-standing sore spot of the Empire will be healed...
Yesterday in his address President Eliot spoke as no other man living could speak. From the splendid richness of his experience he can look over and beyond the temporary sore spots of today. His speech was colored with all the farsighted liberalism which has been the keynote of his life. In most men's careers it is possible to pick out a span of years, ten or twenty, and refer to it as "his day". President Eliot showed yesterday that "his day", as every college class has felt for the past fifty years...
Plainly there is something wrong; the question is where? Before finding a remedy, it is first necessary to find the sore spot. In this case it may be one or all of three things. The attitude of the class towards German as a language may be hostile,--but that is not likely; or the attitude towards the courses in German may be wrong,--that is possible. The Requirements may be too strict either because the standard is too high, or the field too narrow,--that also is possible. Finally, the courses may be inadequate because of the great difficulty...
This is particularly true here in the United States, where anybody's business is everybody's, and the free and constant expression of public opinion on every conceivable question, is a sore tempiation to foreign ambassadors. Public opinion, when properly guided, sways everything before it in this country, yet its force is swayed by cross rumors and expressions of personal views. There is no censorship of the press and everybody reads and criticizes. What one paper will not print another will, and anyone with anything important or sensational to say sooner or later finds himself with an audience. Nolens, volens...
...Lloyd George's triumphant defense of his policies before the House of Commons yesterday, he laid his finger with characteristically severe touch on the outstanding sore spot in European politics-the reparations problem. A large part of all the post-war difficulties centers about the amount of the payments exacted from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles; and yet, as Lloyd George has said, the treaties did not cause the reparations. Their creation is due to the fact that there is something to repair. If the Versailles compact is altered, the burden is merely shifted from Germany to France without...