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...Habsburg anachronism was replaced by the Wilsonian unrealities. The two most important of the new splinter states-Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia-operated on the Habsburg principle of a dominant nationality reigning over subordinate nationalities. Neither they nor their little neighbors could defend themselves. Progress and good intentions had created a power vacuum into which rushed first the Nazis, then the Reds...
...with the new situation. His refusal to compromise in the graduate college controversy was almost Princeton's undoing; his refusal to compromise in the fight . . . over the League of Nations was the nation's undoing. Both controversies assume the character and proportions of a Greek tragedy." That Wilsonian tragedy has yet to be written...
TIME and the Council have other common associations. Each of us, for instance, owes a debt to Cleveland's late Newton D. Baker, World War I Secretary of War and famed Wilsonian. Mr. Baker was the Council's mentor and prime mover, and nobody gave more encouragement to TIME'S fledgling editors 20 years ago. Having him for an enthusiastic weekly reader bolstered the editors' belief that their new venture was a worth while...
...follower of Woodrow Wilson. I gloried in his idealism and in the magnificent effort he made to build the peace upon the Covenant of the League of Nations." But a lot of branch water has gone into the bourbon since then. Jimmy may still have Wilsonian visions; certainly, he can still recognize and use the traditional U.S. political principles. But Jimmy, an intensely practical man, is leading no crusades. He subscribes to the doctrine that "politics is the art of the possible." He tries to keep from getting behind or ahead of the parade...
Thus, in 1934, Cleveland's late Newton Diehl Baker, World War I Secretary of War and famed Wilsonian, wrote to Brooks Emeny, a young (then 33), Princeton-trained instructor in foreign affairs at Yale University. It was an offer of a hard job: to put vigor and educational purpose into Cleveland's limping Foreign Affairs Council. Slender, earnest Brooks Emeny took it on. He found a membership of 300 women, 50 men holding only four meetings a year...