Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fancy an investigator fifty years from now digging that up and trying to understand it. He might be writing a monumental work on the history of travel, showing how the moderns passed from one country to another, and with what motives. This little interchange might seem to be a precious bit of documentation for him, but what is its real explanation. The solemn senators did not say. They may have winked or smiled at each other, but the stenoraphers could not get that down. So, as far as the record goes, it must remain a mystery why Americans. Consule Volstead...
...pretensions agree to a similar limitation. But in that event disarmament is an advantage to the aggressor. It frees his hand. The helplessness of China has provided her aggressors with their opportunity. In the end she must manage to protect herself, but in the meantime those who understand the disastrous consequences of leaving her open to exploitation must provide for her protection. They cannot provide her with protection unless they are armed. But neither can they provide sufficiently for her protection merely by arming. Chinese independence like Korean independence might be as much endangered by a successful protector...
Unfortunately, however, for the success of the idea the American public is not sufficiently educated in foreign politics to understand the peculiar importance of curing the existing disorder in the Far East and the effect of such a cure upon the peace of the world and the limitation of naval armaments. That part of the American people which is most interested in peace does not distinguish between land and naval armaments and the difference of political objects which provoke nations to undertake one rather than the other. It does not see that armies raised a much more unmanageable group...
...wish to be misunderstood. I understand the more obvious reasons, at least, why we should fight the strike. It is because some consider it a strike as a result of which the public--an evidently though not actually innocent party--will suffer. If any man entertains this opinion and wishes to aid in breaking the strike (which probably won't come off) let him do so as an individual. The group should not be called "the Harvard Unit". Meetings for the instruction of prospective strike breakers should not be held on college grounds or if so held it should...
What is the purpose of all these movements? To stimulate interest in the colleges. Agreed. But why do we desire such interest? Is it in order that collegmen may better understand the problems which face the conference? Yes, but that is not the final purpose. It is Fardly to be expected that resolutions can greatly aid the experts at Washington in mastering the tremendously involved problems which the question of the limitation of armaments presents. Professor will have their part to play in that, not undergraduates...