Word: national
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is merely an index of how this nation is penny-wise and pound-foolish. New York city is having an epidemic of robberies such as it has not had for years. More than once recently a longshoremens strike has tied up ocean travel. New York has been spending money like the proverbial drunken sailor. Nor is New York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion...
...ordinary man a physical specimen capable of being converted into a soldier in the event of a future war. In France and Germany the men are moulded into soldiers for instant use. While in the United States benefits from the training accrue to both the man and the nation, in France and Germany the nation only is benefited...
...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 to have a hard time convincing our allies that Mexico should be let alone to work our her own salvation. Mexico has had nearly as long as we have...
Throughout the war Armenia has suffered perhaps more than any other nation, and today she stands impoverished and encircled by enemies. General bagratooni, one of the most famous of the Armenian heroes of the war by virtue of his defence of Baku against the Turkish forces for eight months, is endeavoring to secure some alleviation of the dire wants of his country. When asked about the aims of the mission here and the condition of Armenia at the present time the General said...
...cannot allow to pass unchallenged Dr. Fosdick's attack in the Harvard Chapel upon the program of universal military training. At the same time that he denounced the nation's unwillingness to defend the Armenians against the threat of Turkish aggression, he also denounced the plan of those who would put the nation in a condition of readiness to meet such threats. For my part I see no virtue in expecting America to take the field against the forces of violence and disorder unless one is willing that America should be equipped to take the field. Pacifism combined with staying...