Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This exposition was made by Sir Samuel Hoare, 55, the day after his resignation as British Foreign Secretary and three days before he was succeeded by Mr. Anthony Eden, 38, the youngest British Foreign Secretary since Earl Granville in 1851. Its continuing vital importance was well indicated by New-York Timesman Charles A. Selden who cabled from London thus: "Anybody who went to the Commons expecting to hear reproaches and recriminations between Sir Samuel Hoare on the one hand and Mr. Baldwin and other members of the Cabinet on the other was disappointed. There was not a trace of bitterness...
...give his opinion of the usefulness of the recently endowed Littauer School, Mr. Thomas said that training in a political leader is not so important as the purposes which underly his policies. "What is the government for and what are the motives of its officers?" is a more vital question in present day politics than the education of the leaders...
...Grau San. Martin, de Cespedes and finally Mendieta made for suspicion and distrust. The efforts of Dr. BcBain of Columbia resulted in a new electoral system, and the government of the United States was largely instrumental in advising the Cuban government during the remodelling of its constitution. With these vital changes came a feeling of trust and good-will and through the reciprocal tariff agreement Cuba was largely restored to that prosperity which was hers eight years before. Under the provisional president, Dr. Mendieta, legal elections were set for December, 1935 and to remove all suspicion of American interference...
...Dodds of Princeton, the Cuba political horizon has cleared considerably. If the December elections come off as scheduled and with a minimum of violence and disturbance, Cuba will rapidly forge ahead and regain her former peace and prosperity. Her friendship and cooperation will be a vital and immeasurable aid to the United States in formulating and maintaining our Latin-American policy during the years to come...
Professor Bixler will discuss present day Chinese religion this morning in Emerson A at 11. The Vagabond suggests this lecture as a vital and stimulating subject. The present crisis in China is only another example of the many forces which are hastening the collapse of her precious social customs. The patriarchal family is beginning to disintegrate; students are demanding freedom from the customs of the past. To save the gold of China's art of living; and yet give her what enlightenment modernity offers is no mean problem...