Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alternative, may I suggest that each man be allowed three votes instead of one. This would not interfere with minority representation, yet would provide a fairer test of class preference...
...Hard to Test Success of Conference
...fastens the attention of the Conference on a fairly objective consideration of the causes of international disorder and conflict in the Pacific in relation to the competition in naval armaments. What would in that event constitute a fair yard-stick of its success? Should we test it by the volume of naval disarmament upon which Japan, Great Britain and the United States would agree? Or should we test it by the extent to which it permanently adjusts existing conflicts of national policy in China and creates a concert of Pacific Powers based on the loyal acceptance by all of them...
...Administration has done well to associate the proposal to limit naval armaments with the proposal to do away with one of the chief reasons for their existence. It would not do well to insist on the limitation without having succeeded in securing its regional international agreement. The public should test its work by its success in eradicating the causes of international fear, hostility and disorder in the Pacific. Its business is to provide for the future protection of China by an agreement among the Pacific Powers which will have as its chief purpose the building up of a strong...
...Hard to Test Success of Conference