Word: deadlocker
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...after a careful non-partisan investigation of conditions and public opinion here in regard to the ratification of the Treaty has made a report in which one feels he has given us the benefit of the doubt. He has explained to the English people the causes underlying the deadlock between President and Senate. Nothing can make for future friendly relations between nations so much as an intimate understanding on the part of one of the workings of the national consciousness of the other...
...impatience and disappointment at the delay of the United States in ratifying the Peace Treaty and the covenant of the League of Nations. It is perhaps not so generally recognized here that there is also impatience and disappointment in the United States. Nowhere is the impasse caused by the deadlock between the President and the Senate more keenly regretted than in the United States, where there is a strong and even urgent desire in the public opinion to see a way out of that impasse found which will be both honorable to the United States and helpful to the world...
...business before us is to see that some covenant that has international welfare as its aim be established. The Senator contends that it is the duty of every American to safeguard the interests of these United Sates first, last and all the time. Between the two there is a deadlock. Which side a man takes depends on his philosophy of life-the only appeal that can be made for either is a flag flapping appeal. Nor does it seem that Mr. Gallishaw himself is quite immune from that sort of thing. "The feet of young men are making new foot...
...history of the United States, for 1918 is going to show us whether our man-power and industries can successfully be transported to Europe and, more important than that, whether, when they arrive, they will be able to throw enough weight into the balance of the present deadlock to bring about a decisive victory. By spring our troops and ordnance should be ready to go abroad, by summer we should have a huge fleet of fighters with which to supply our Overseas Force, by October or November the first American drive should be on. We cannot expect an immediate advance...
...Camps was carried in favor by a fourteen per cent. majority. Those who voted their approval of the camps realize that long and steady work is necessary to acquaint our high spirited public with the facts; but, nevertheless, it is difficult for them to regard the turning of a deadlock into a fourteen per cent. favorable majority as anything save a victory. J. T. L. JEFFRIES...