Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After over three years of inactivity and only nominal participation in the war, Japan proposes a plan of co-operation with the Allies in a seizure of Russian supplies in Eastern Siberia about the sea-port of Vladivostok. Anger and disappointment in the Bolshevik attitude, and the seriousness of their complete collapse before the advancing Germans point to the immediate acceptance of the proposal. Yet from a broad point of view the desirability of such action is much to be doubted...
...last months of the war we have felt keenly the downfall of Russian resistance. We have good cause to deprecate a policy which not only leaves a whole nation in the chaos of anarchy, but endangers the success of our arms. Yet, despite all this, there exists no reason for our press to pour abuse and call down hatred upon that people. For in what period of history has a single race been face to face, at one and the same time, with a great foreign war and a complete overthrow of all institutions? The Russian situation is indeed unfortunate...
America can afford fair play. If we have entered the war in a purity of idealism, we must not sink to the baseness of a narrow-minded prejudice. Let us remember that misguided and barbarous as the Germans appear, they are, after all, of the race from which we all spring. They undoubtedly have violated many of mankind's sacred laws, but they are human. When, crushed by the burden of insuperable odds, they shall finally turn their faces toward an honest peace, we must be ready to do our part in seeing that a decent consideration is given their...
...March 22, was received yesterday from New Haven. If Princeton, which has the right to change the phrasing of the question, makes no alterations, the subject will be: "Resolved, that the Government should limit the free expression of opinion, that is, free speech of press and assembly, in war-time...
...University teams will have but two of last year's men among their number, J. Davis '19 and W. L. Prosser '18, but both teams should be well prepared to discuss the subject chosen, as the preliminary trials were argued on a similar subject, war-time censorship...