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...recognition of Russia laid the State Department open to fresh charges of "hypocritical and unwarranted interference with American business" (Scripps-Howard). Also it was obvious that unrecognized Russia must construe the act as an unfriendly one. Nevertheless, Mr. Stimson took these risks. From the historical viewpoint the episode seemed to amount to this: in order to further the moral aim of the Pact of Paris, the Secretary of State decided as the Pact would dictate...
...against war. . . . They are naturally against any naval limitation. ... I have no intention of including all naval men in this criticism. . . . Admiral [William Veazie] Pratt's statement in favor of the Treaty was conspicuous for its statesman-like analysis and fair appraisal of the problem. . . . The professional military viewpoint . . . is narrow . . . only covers a portion of the field. . . . Never was the narrowness and intolerance of militarism exhibited in more striking light...
...consider that the Communist Party of the U. S. A. is one of the few Communist Parties to which history has confided decisive tasks from the viewpoint of the world revolutionary movement. The revolutionary crisis . . . in the United States . . . is near...
...cannot approach the subject of secondary education simply from the viewpoint of preparation for college. Indeed secondary schools are often criticized because they degenerate into cramming institutions for entrance examinations. Rather the secondary period should afford the pupil an opportunity during the early years to discover under guidance his particular aptitudes, to acquire such a factual knowledge as is essential for his future development, to gain some acquaintance and initial facility with the tools of learning. Intelligent thinking requires imagination and a capacity for abstract reasoning; but it is no less nobly based on ability to command or to discover...
...there were any danger that further cooperation between pupil, school, and college would eliminate the difference in environment and attitude which distinguishes the college from the secondary school it would be detrimental. The positive value of such a change of viewpoint and mental "set" for the pupil is obvious. But we could eliminate this effect of the transition if we would. I believe that its benefits will be retained and some of its no less recognized difficulties, lessened if in matters curricular the relation between the last two years in the secondary school and the first years in college...