Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the grave developments that have taken place since my letter was published in Saturday's CRIMSON, I think it behooves me to make a few statements as to my personal attitude. I believe that this country has made the greatest mistake in its history and I am terribly sorry. As I have already indicated, I think the reasons for breaking off diplomatic relations are not at all sufficient, and I hope that some day this country will come to realize this. It will be a very sad awakening, but it will do us a world of good...
...will lecture in the Living Room of the Union on Monday, February 12. In accordance with the purpose of his visit to this country as lecturing representative of England in the present war, Captain Beith will speak on some phase of the struggle from Great Britain's point of view, drawing from his wide experience in the Allied ranks as a member of the Tenth Argyl and Sutherland and Highlanders...
...member of the Sutherland Highlanders and at the front during the opening months of the war. His book is unique among the war publications in having been characterized as the account of the typical life of a British soldier at the front, written from a soldier's point of view...
...Union deserves a large audience. First hand impressions always have something of vital life which no impersonal speculation may attain. The Captain has spoken already at Yale and Princeton. His talk here is especially interesting because he speaks from the same platform where Mrs. Skeffington spoke, with a different view of the same events which have affected them both. His conclusions will be judged by the same judgments as were hers...
...records that the traditional American policy has been right"? The advocates of this program of military defence seem wholly to overlook the fact that our national security, far from being threatened by the militarism of the Europe of the present and the immediate future, has been vastly increased, in view of the crippled and impoverished condition of that continent, resulting from the great war. If Dr. Eliot's former assurance is valid, viz. that danger to us from "either a European or Oriental invasion is practically infinitesimal," how much more true is this judgment at the present time...