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British diplomacy. Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1912 on a platform of domestic reform; the Democrats knew little and cared less about Europe. "It would be the irony of Fate." said Wilson, "if my Administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs." When "Colonel'' Edward Mandell House, self-constituted peace apostle, went to Europe in the spring of 1914 with Wilson's unofficial blessing, he soon suspected that .Europe was in a dangerous state but it took him a long time to realize that European diplomacy was not exactly aboveboard. After the War began Col. House...
...will deny that the nose has had a significant role in deciding the fate of many unfortunate individuals in Germany today? Racial origins may be disputed, hands may be tied, but emigration statistics in the Fatherland show you can't fool Hitler on what a German's nose should be like. According to one news item, several of the tainted ones have tried to help matters by cultivating a mustache...
...month, the Court should sustain certain vital sections of the NRA now under examination, Mr. Roosevelt probably will be able to force the Senate to comply with his wishes. In passing, one cannot help suggesting that now when time is such a precious element in the fate of the Blue Eagle, the President may not look on Professor Frankfurter with too fond feelings. It was the latter's advice that major court tests of the NRA be delayed. But that was when the Eagle soared merrily...
...indeed, but not one in which any of the various authors seems overconfident of conquering, and under which most of them suffer acute forebodings of defeat. To my mind, the most startling revelation of these productions is not to what extent the thoughtful undergraduate has become preoccupied with the fate of society, but the all-too-ominous mood which this concern has evoked. Twenty or thirty years ago the occasional student who did devote himself to the issues of public life assumed beyond the shadow of a doubt that democracy was the goal toward which creation tended and that progress...
...like to urge Harvard men to get out and really become active in political and public affairs. Too many times the 'fate of the nation' is decided over a drink, and then the students forget all about it the next day. There has been too much indifference among young men. They're the ones we want, and they're the ones the country should have in public life...