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...possession. By inculcating in these students American ideals and methods of though, these various colleges can exert a very wholesome, though somewhat long-distance control of affairs south of the border. It will take time for the effect to become evident, but if the embryo statesmen are given the proper attention and treatment, a gringo tinge will surely appear in the actions of the Mexican government before many years have passed...
...saying that it is "best oating when one's a-hungry' finds a close parallel in the present diplomatic situation. Ever since 1789, American statesmen have been wary of interference in foreign politics; and when in 1920 the executive sought to extend American influence more fully to international circles, our legislators balked. As a Parisian journal recently put it, Europe had mistaken Wilsonism for the voice of the American people; and the Allied powers, therefore, were disappointed that the American-made Treaty of Versaillers did not find acceptance with the United States Senate. The Fourteen Points, the great...
...Enforce Peace favored guarantees of combined force to preserve territorial integrity, of which Article X was the ultimate expression. The divergence of view with its increasing ramifications continued throughout the Conference, made the President unsympathetic with any plan for an international court until forced upon him by European statesmen, and caused him to be generally intolerant of the legal point of view which Mr. Lansing represented by training and inheritance. This ignorance and disregard of the President's for the juristic side of the negotiations took a curious twist in his notion that a preliminary treaty or modus viviendi containing...
...French General Confederation of Labor has declared itself in favor of using German man-power. At once the government has shown signs of reversing its stand, and leading French statesmen are dwelling upon the advantages of the German offer. It has been stated in the New York Tribune that the Germans could do, for $550,000,000, work which is now costing the French government $750,000,000. Shifting the burden of restoration to German labor would cut from the French budget the immense sums now allotted to the devastated areas and forward deflation. It will indeed be unfortunate...
...unduly gratified when Z in turn calls him a snob. Thackeray has made a special study of University snobs and speaks suavely of the whole order; those who "pride themselves in giving recherche little French dinners," the "dressy Snobs," the "sporting Snobs," the "philosophical Snobs, who are statesmen at the sporting-clubs," and many others. The rock-of-ages verdict, then, is that everyone is snobbish, and will be as long as such a thing as individualism exists. We are all of us tainted with the same sin:--where is he that can cast the first stone...