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...Sometimes I think I will destroy this University of Paper Cards, where clubs are trumps. Then again it does not seem worth while. Better to let the place sag as it does today, rotting from the top down...
Commenting on the Secretary's statements, Lord Birkenhead, the former Lord Chancellor, stated that France could, if she wished, destroy London and almost every center of industrial population in England. The usually conservative Viscount Grey in a debate in the House of Lords said that unless a sense of security could be attained in Europe, England could not possibly rest content with her present inability to defend herself against attacks in the air. The entire British press is discussing the problem and urging an increased air program. Even A. G. Gardiner, editor of the liberal Manchester Guardian, criticizes France...
...estimated number of armed men is roughly 1,000,000, who are scattered over the vast face of China and among an estimated population of 320,650,000. General Wu, believed by many to be the real hope of China, is a militarist, but his aim is to destroy militarism. This aim is shared by the President, Li Yuan-Hung, but obscure forces make it impossible for Wu and the President to join together against the other Tuchuns. In the South, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen is ostensibly trying to lead a movement to effect the reunification of China. There...
Speaking at a luncheon of the Liberal Club yesterday, Mr. Scott Nearing discussed labor and labor problems with special reference to the conditions in the Ruhr valley. Mr. Nearing, in exeplaining the French policy, pointed out that the French had three alternatives in their plan to destroy Germany's power, these being by political weakening, by economic depredation, or by propaganda, and stated that, since the French were inadept at spreading propaganda, they had resorted at the other methods, and were trying to overthrow Germany politically and economically, by separating Bavaria from the rest of the German state...
...that reason I am urging this policy of withdrawing French troops from the Ruhr. The American people should push aside all sentimentality, and face the real facts. There is no question about the devastation and sacrifice of France in the war, but France should not be allowed to destroy herself after...