Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have studied the Armenian question declare that with the acceptance of a mandate for Armenia by the United States a relatively small body of armed forces could preserve order, and after a period be gradually withdrawn. Such action on our part would scarcely require compulsory military training...
While American troops are in Siberia it is difficult for the Japanese to take any action toward the absorption of this territory. If however, American troops are withdrawn, Japan is given a free hand, and can excuse almost any act on the ground of the necessity of securing Siberia against the Bolsheviki. The chances are excellent that we should shortly find that Japan had assumed the same relation toward Siberia that England held toward Egypt fifteen years ago--or that Japan herself once held toward Korea...
...Text Book Loan Library was started in 1906, primarily to reduce the expenses of students working their way through college. There are at present 3500 books on the shelves, of which 2000 are French and German readers and grammars. The average number of books withdrawn yearly reaches 700. The number of volumes is being increased every year by regular collections and by the gifts of numerous friends. The depository fee is ten or fifteen cents, depending on the book to be loaned; all but five cents is given back when the book is returned by the borrower...
...Russia work out her own destiny," said Professor Felix Frankfurter '06, head of the Citizen's Committee recently organized in Boston to support the withdrawal of all American troops from Russia, in an interview yesterday. "England and France have withdrawn their soldiers from Russia, leaving only a small force of Americans impotently struggling against all the Bolshevist hordes. We also should make peace with Russia," he continued...
Patriots may well view with alarm the break in the National Industrial Conference at Washington. It is an event of grave moment in American affairs and may not be dismissed with a word and a hope. Labor has withdrawn from the conference muttering; the representatives of the public seem to side with labor; capital sits tight; and the country waits to see how badly it is to be ground between the upper and the nether millstones...