Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citing the cession of unjust rights to Italy in South Tryol, which were based on the World War I mistake of Wilson, and the abortion of Italy's just claims in Trieste, Salvemini said that the results of the conference were the product of the more prevalent type of power politics, foolish power politics...
...legislative confusion that confounded Wood-row Wilson in 1918 and Herbert Hoover in 1930 may appear again--while the United States writhes in another world crisis--when the votes of next Tuesday's election are tabulated and the Eightieth Congress is on its way to Washington. Both the pages of history and the opinions of "political experts" portend a loss of Democratic power. But should scattered defeats become a national rout, both the voting records of Republican congressmen and the plans of G.O.P. leaders augur two years of stalemate and a future of reaction...
...conciliate. Twenty years ago a spiritual failure of the League of Nations was the generally blithe assumption that the "spade would work by itself." The inability to understand that an assembly of states is only a tool which must be used by its members was the flaw that destroyed Wilson's dream...
...trouble, Wilson told the Chicago Economic Ciub, was coming from two sources: price controls and increased labor costs. Said he, "Every artificial control is like a dam across a stream. The stream either stops flowing, or is diverted to new channels. These diverted materials are either disappearing from the market or, for cost reasons, are showing up in black market channels...
Wage increases, said he, would mean price increases. But if prices go up any further, markets for many items will contract. Said Wilson: "This is the vicious path to depression...