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...league of nations. It points out with characteristic clearness who is bossing Europe and who would boss our country if we were to accept the league as it is. But more than that, it shows the absolute worthlessness of the promises of the very astute and supposedly sincere European statesmen. Mr. Lloyd George claims that England must manufacture poison gases "because the other nations are doing it." Where is the promise of disarmament...
...large to have some understanding of the temper of the Russian people and may help to make it realize that Russia intends to settle her own internal problems without foreign interference. Set down in black and white this seems a logical enough desire, but most of the world's statesmen have regarded it as an unwarrantable assumption...
...hundred years ago the United States in the Monroe Doctrine notified the nations of the world that the United States would go to war if any European country undertook a war of conquest in the Western Hemisphere. That announcement was criticised at the time by reactionary statesmen who said it would involve us in wars with European countries for the protection of little republics in the New Yorld. It has never cost us a dollar and never cost us a man but it has prevented European nations from interfering with the territorial integrity and political independence of 20 American republics...
...rate, the completion of the Endowment Fund has seemed to lag deplorably in the past few months, while ambitious statesmen have lured the shekels of their supporters into their campaign officers. The drive which was inaugurated last fall with a goal of fifteen millions seems to have lost its velocity upon reaching the twelve-million mark...
...Engineering. Every morning there is a large auditorium meeting addressed by some such prominent man as Mott, Eddy, Cotton, MacKenzie-King, Dean Brown, Fosdick, Fitch, or Bishop Brent. The best speakers available are secured, and it is hoped this year in particular to, have some of the leading American statesmen and industrial leaders...