Word: compacter
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...course of the past twelvemonth that the people of America are distrustful of the League of Nations covenant as it now stands. Rather than support the Democratic viewpoint and vote for Cox, the equivalent, since President Wilson's outbreak of Sunday last, of voting for the League compact as proposed by Wilson himself, the majority would vote for a Republican nominee unalterably opposed to the League in any form...
...volume is more than a mere catalogue--it is a compact, readable history of Mediaeval and Renaissance paintings, with many fine engravings...
...Senator Lodge's interpretation, though subtle, is very potent. The following example well illustrates it: Three boys are oppressed by a bully, so they league together to jump on him should he attack any one of them. There is a great sense of security and power in such a compact. But, now, if the largest of the three withdraws from the agreement, saying, 'All right, boys, when the bully attacks you, jump on him. I will then decide whether I shall help you or not,' both the advantages of the league are lost...
...heart of the treaty,' says President Wilson, 'is the agreement of all the countries to stand together in upholding the territorial integrity of the fellow-members of the League.' Now, if the United States, one of the members, perhaps the greatest, decides to remain out of the compact, one of the principal features of the League, that of unified and overwhelming power, is shattered...
...generally supposed, it truly would be well to hesitate before joining it. But it isn't. I don't aspire to be a politician, but in my travels I have received some impressions that I hope are correct; and these are that this League is not an irrevocable compact, but a means of getting together, of discussing and trying to answer some of the great questions that concern the safety of the whole world. And as the League of Nations is the best solution for this, it must come...