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...seeds of a future world war will be sown if the United States enacts the exclusion law [now being discussed in Congressional committee]. The Japanese could not submit to the humiliation of being treated like Negroes. A prophet is not required to predict a crisis in American-Japanese relations. Every believer in world peace is duty bound to oppose the passage of this most unreasonable measure...
...seeds of republicanism were sown in him when, once a year, the emperor and his suite of aristocrats distinguished soldiers and statesmen came to shoot over the Moravian estate. This company were in the habit of leaving their costly cloaks, which represented a fortune to the peasant, in his father's cottage. While the shoot was on the peasants used to gather round to admire the resplendent garments, but little Tommy Masaryk alone refused to look at them, saying: " I do not like to see those things." Later, explaining his feelings, he said: "I felt there was something radically wrong...
...Ruhr The little seed of peace, given by Herr Hugo Stinnes to Premier Mussolini in Italy nearly a month ago, sown by Mussolini and Jaspar in a subsequent conference at Milan, and watered with assiduous care by M. Loucheur, unofficial diplomat of French industry, and Premier Theunis of Belgium, has at length pushed its first leaves through the earth...
...game were absolutely right now there would be no need for any change; if the disgrace of losing a game were understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for it sown sake; many game such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel that he must win, will the game lose some of its enjoyment; and just so far will he become less of a sportsman...
...colony can live, love, and prosper without interference and with reasonable good fortune for any length of time, it should be an immense factor for good. The results will not be startling, or even immediately observable, but they should be both real and salutary. Once a seed is sown and given a good start it can look out for itself if it be from a sturdy plant...