Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...real peace, League or no League, we must all be ready to sacrifice and concede i a more friendly spirit. The present temper of the European nations is one which our own lawmaking would do well to copy...