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...Polk in signing the authorization for sale for President Wilson (who was then ill) was misled, 2) because the price paid was ridiculously low, 3) because the President did not have authority to make the sale, 4) because the sale was a conspiracy (Francis P. Garvan who became Alien Property Custodian about that time later became President of the Chemical Foundation), 5) because the sale was fraudulent, several American owned patents being seized and sold with the German...
...Nathaniel Curzon: he's a very particular person" and the tradition of aloofness has remained despite a record of diplomacy and statesmanship of which any commoner might be proud. It is small wonder, then, that the Labor party hinted that it would resent the appointment of a peer, "so alien to the aspirations of democracy", reposing luxuriously in the House of Lords well out of reach of Labor's official opposition...
Whether or not there is a shortage, Congress will probably stand pat. Mark Sullivan, political expert, asserts that there is no one question about which the opinion and the intention of Congress is so clear as about immigration. Reflecting the anti-alien feeling throughout the country, Congress is in favor of even further restriction, if anything...
Secretary of Labor Davis is planning to remedy this condition. He believes that the only solution is a strict enrollment system for aliens. An "Alien Educational Bill" which he is preparing to submit to the 68th Congress contains three provisions: selective choice of prospective immigrants by our agents abroad; immediate registration of all aliens admitted to the country; compulsory Americanization meetings which all aliens must attend for five years after their arrival...
...Turk his own master?" by substituting the answer, "In Turkey! " for the usual retort, "In hell." These words sum up the fundamental characteristics of Kemal's policy. He stands today as the Emancipator of Turkey. He has lifted the people out of the slough of servile submission to alien authority, brought them to a realization of their inherent qualities and to an independence of thought and action...