Word: friction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...provide for race equality in the League of Nations covenant would be quite logical, as far as abstract equality between nations goes, but the economic phase of the proposal would be sure to produce friction. And even though the recognition of race equality were supplemented by a gentleman's agreement not to exercise the rights awarded in the league treaty, it is likely that such an agreement would sooner or later be repudiated...
...consideration of these irremediable basic circumstances it seems that the further encouragement of nationalism will only produce painfully unrealizable ambitions. The migrations of the past have decreed that these interspersed European races should live together. The practical solution of their friction is to democratize and enlighten the federative governments under which they must live, not to attempt to divide them...
...hundred and four years the United States and Canada have lived side by side without mutual fear or suspicion; may their relation in the future be marked not only by this absence of friction, but by the positive qualities of strong mutual amity and respect...
...history shows. Bolivar, not content with liberating his own Venezuela, likewise liberated Colombia, Bolivia, Equador and Peru. More than one Porto Rican died in the Cuban "manigua" fighting for the liberties of the sister isle. And it is this very love of liberty, I honestly believe, that has caused friction and misunderstanding between the great republic of the North and the peoples south of the Rio Grande. They believe that the rights of Colombia, Santo Domingo, or Porto Rico, are every bit as sacred as the rights of Argentina, the United States, or Brazil. Internal disorder they may have...
...release employees the Government may need without dislocating business. The board purposes to gather the best experience of American and foreign business in this respect, and make it available for all business of this country, so that recruiting and military service may go on with the least possible friction and damage to business. The members of the board will work without pay, and at least one of them will spend all his time in Washington, where offices and a staff will be maintained...