Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...action have we taken? For two years we have been in a diplomatic controversy with Germany. We have stated our position in-numerable times, and, after two years in deliberation and judicious action have borne no fruit, are we hasty and hot-headed when we declare that we shall talk no more? We have done our deliberating; we have studiously tried to avoid war; and yet, after all that has passed we are told that we are in a danger of being injudicious and hasty! Nor is there a general misunderstanding, as the platform declares. The issues are very plain...
...question which occurred to some of us perhaps or reading the communication "Thinking, as Well as Fighting" of Saturday, February 17. For two and a half years Europe has been agonized and is still agonized in the most momentous war of all history and yet we still talk of having time to think out what our individual and our national duty is. It would seem that anyone who has so far risen above his own personal affairs or the seriousness of "America at peace" as to contemplate the great issues of the war, must have come to some conclusion about...
...should not come, as we trust it will not, those men who have done their part will feel no cause for regret. If war should come, as we feel it will, how many those men face their flag who talk so valiantly now of peace? Their thought, when they see their companions prepared in all earnestness to make good their loyalty, must be exceedingly bitter...
...text book idea of this country's isolation in world affairs has been conclusively disproved by recent events," said Professor Robert Matteson Johnston, in his talk to the Freshman Debating Society in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "We must recast our whole ideas of European relations. The first thing to be done is, of course, to get an army; and few realize that this takes time. It would be six years before a first class force of troops could be created to compete with any of the Powers...
After his talk, in answer to questions put by some of those present, Professor Johnston said that he did not believe there was any hope of diplomatic relations being re-established with Germany. He called attention to the fact that President Wilson had received such support from the neutral nations and from the American people that his position was all the more strengthened...