Word: may
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...when they were badly needed in France. Mexico has been a thorn not only in our side, but in that of Europe as well. The latter will soon reach the limit of their patience. Our much-touted Monroe Doctrine is going to be an embarrassment to any administration we may elect. Euro-pen countries, with vast war debts to pay off and rich consecrations is Mexico are likely to suggest that they go in and make that turbulent nation safe for their investments. The Monroe Doctrine forbids such an encroachment on the Western Hemisphere, but the United States is going...
...Conditions in Armenia today are worse than ever before, and there is no relief in sight unless the United States will help us. Trains of supplies that have recently been sent to Armenia have been captured by Turkish forces, with the result that Armenia is starving and helpless. You may not believe it, but the Turks are now forcing the youth of Armenia into the Turkish army and are giving them a single alternative--that of being hung...
...First of all Armenia asks for universal recognition of her independence as an integral state that she may start to develop her policies to build a government and to recover from the havoc wrought by the war. Without recognition by the powers she cannot hope to survive...
Having passed through the terrors of war, we hopefully face the even more perilous times of reconstruction ahead. Reconstruction as well as charity begins at home. And where can we be better "reconstructed" in our ideas of the possibilities of the English language than by listening to Professor Copeland? May his readings continue until the "Letters from France" and the "Hero's Couch" are but memories of the distant past...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82 will give the first of his readings for the season 1919-20 in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. This Christmas reading will include selections from Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. Any member of the Union may obtain admittance upon showing his membership card. As is customary, the doors will be closed as soon as the reading begins, and those who arrive late cannot be admitted...