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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...edifice a monument of international understanding. It would be a recognition that there are two sides to international questions, that war judgments are distorted by passion. Many professors here look back with shame to the time when the war fever lay so heavily upon them that they denied the commonest civilities to their former German friends on the campus. A monument to remind us of the changed light in which we saw the German people a decade after the war might help to prevent a repetition of such bitterness. Whenever the war fever threatens again, the name of Hans Wagner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell and Harvard | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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