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...conditions; and during interruptions of our cable between Guam and Manila, which cut off all communication with the Philippines and China by our route, we diverted traffic via Yap to Shanghai over the German-Dutch system." American commercial expansion demands communications with Asia that will not be under the control of a competing power. The United States disputes the award of Yap to Japan because the mandate would give that country exclusive control over a strategic center of communication...
...progress. The rights at issue involve the most fundamental which the individual possesses and exercises in the furtherance of his own interest and that of the society of which he is a part. The policies are broad issues reaching into the individual and social value of free managerial control and direction of business method, and the encouragement, promotion, and stimulation of the worker's individual initiative...
...American mind. Attempt to retain the present excess profits, estate, and income taxes, augurs an intensification of these awkward and meddlesome methods of taxation. In order to attract the farmer into this scheme, the program prescribes for him a more flexible and accessible credit system. The proposals for legislative control of the meat packing industry, and for the defeat of compulsory military training serve as bait to a large number of trusting people. At a time when private enterprise is in a weakened condition owing to unprecedented world-wide upheaval, such juggling with the nation's welfare is ill-judged...
News comes from Washington that a coalition of farmer organizations and labor unions called the "People's Reconstruction League" is making plans to obtain the passage of legislation in Congress to accomplish the prompt restoration of the railroads to unified government operation; control of the meat packing industry by legislation; retention of the excess profits, estate and income tax on land holdings; short time rural credit system for farmers effected through a system of co-operative banks aided by the federal government; public ownership and development of all natural resources; and the defeat of compulsory military training...
...Truth, and not because it has followed popular clamor. It has insisted on its right to set its own standards, no matter how defective they may have been; and in its students it has recognized the creative power of the individual and the small group as against the control of the crowd. The West may stand for that vague thing we call Democracy; Harvard stands for Aristocracy in the true Greek sense; it believes in catering to the best; and it is attempting concretely to set its standards by the ablest men, rather than by the mediocre. It is true...