Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question remains as to whether the United States has the right to confiscate these boats and put them to public uses...
...paper begins with three editorials. They are not very significant, and the first, "The One Loyalty," leaves room for difference of opinion. It is at least debatable whether a man who wants to do what little he can for the cause of right and civilization today is disloyal to his own country, as the article makes out, in going over to drive an ambulance or do hospital work in France. Until international conditions acutely change, help to that country, no matter how small, is help also to the United States...
Soldiers, whether in uniform or out of it, are expected to stand at salute from the beginning to the end of any rendition of the anthem that takes place where they are present. Also, when an army band plays the tune, it must be played through, without the repetition of any part not required to be repeated to make it complete...
...regard to this country sending over an expeditionary force in case of war with Germany, I rather doubt whether the British would welcome such a move. From my experience in Europe it seems to me the best thing the United States can do is to start right away to get an army ready and secure efficiency, and then if a time comes to go, they will be trained men, and greatly desired over there. The two ways the United States can help the Allies is by loans of money and the convoying of supply ships by war vessels. The Allies...
...long, complicated name for a short and rather familiar type of play. We can all remember "Stop Thief," "Officer 666" and others which do not contain policemen. "He Said, etc." contains all the same ingredients of these old familiar farces, including the policeman. When this officer is asked whether he is or is not primitive, he replies that he is Irish. You expected as much. The play is full of the kind of clever lines that the gentle reader could easily have made up himself...