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...between the assembly and the council, which practically means a fight between the large and the small nations. This, then, is the first great trial. Can the League, with all its variety of interests, work together in harmony for the interests of the world as a whole? The temper of this first assembly will go far to show how much the League can be depended upon; like a barometer it will predict the character of the future of the League...
...quite possible for an editor to speak strongly without losing his temper. (Losing one's temper is a strong Irish characteristic...
...Always remember that an editor only loses by losing his temper...
...upon the question of League of Nations or to League of Nations. This may very well be, and yet it is our profound belief that the ultimate issue to be decided by the American people at the polls in November is and must be this: In what temper and to what degree shall they forsake their old aloofness? That they will forsake it is a foregone conclusion. It is as much beyond their power to step back into isolation as it is beyond the power of this century to return to conditions which ended with the nineteenth century. Forces still...
...English) would almost above all forget is our imprisonment of Bertrand Russell." He compares the intolerance of the United States to that of Germany before the war, and that of Russia before the revolution, and ends with the comforting remark that Mr. Berger's case only faintly reflects the temper which caused such upheaval, yet its appearance must be distressing to all who value the traditions for which America came into being." Clearly, we should all have refused to fight, as Mr. Berger wanted us to do; clearly, we should have made him dictator and interim, pending the arrival...