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...word "questionable" that the major fallacy of the argument appears. These ends are questionable to whom? Obviously, it is to William M. Wood. But who has entrusted to William M. Wood a discrimination so absolute that his views of the just and unjust shall be accepted as sovereign? Who is he to define the words "patriotic", "subversive", "anti-American"?--Let him first define the word "American...
That age-old right of a sovereign nation, for which the U.S. fought in 1812 and again in 1917, was virtually surrendered by the passage of the Neutrality Act in 1935-surrendered in an excess of idealism just as sweeping as that with which'Americans surrendered the right to drink when they passed the 18th Amendment. If now the Freedom of the Seas is reasserted it will be an event as striking as Repeal-the end of America's second Noble Experiment in one generation. Last week the effort to end it was already afoot: ^ Secretary Knox denounced...
...Naval General Staff since 1936, and at the beginning of the war he was indeed so floridly Anglophile that Vice Admiral Emile Muselier (now an ardent De Gaullist) cabled him: "You are renouncing the whole of the French naval policy dating back to the 18th Century and abandoning the sovereign rights of France." In 1939 fluently English-speaking Admiral Darlan reviewed the British Reserve Fleet at Portland with King George. After Dunkirk, King George gave Darlan a special decoration for the evacuation, although Darlan had not been there. But after the Armistice, when he became Vichy's Minister...
When the conference opened, Britain's Foreign Secretary, towering Lord Curzon. tried by browbeating and flattery to persuade Inönü to accept something less than full sovereign rights for his country. The issue was foreign judicial rights in Turkey, which had existed since the Sultanate...
...have failed to appreciate . . . the laudable and sensible attempts of our Sovereign's royal father to spelg the English language as it ought to be spelt. . . . The English language cannot be spelt, because there is no English alphabet. We make shift with a Latin alphabet...