Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...stopped. And why? And how? Ought de Valera be stopped for the same reasons for which Franklin might have been ejected from France when he went seeking financial aid and recognition for the United States of America? The arguments which yesterday were employed in defense of Liberty and Freedom are today pressed into the service of those who would crush them both...
...President of the "Republic of Ireland' first came to America it was with the announced intention of doing no more than attempting to enlist the friendship and support of Irish sympathizers in this country, and to formulate a public opinion which would be favorable to Irish freedom. Such a course, although reprehensible, could not legally be checked by the government so long as De Valera conducted himself in an orderly manner...
...violence is only too likely to prove a boomerang. A people which loses its head and charges at an unprovocative flag like a bull in the arena, is not apt to be considered in the eyes of the rest of the world, as fit to have its freedom. Besides, if the Irish were whole-hearted in their cause, working earnestly for liberty, they would not give way to abortive outbursts which can have no real effect on their ultimate desire, but would aim steadily at their main objective, refusing to be turned aside by the floutings of a thousand flags...
General Wrangel's futile attempt to establish a true freedom in Russia has failed. Fighting a losing campaign ever since the Polish Treaty left the Bolsheviki free to turn the whole power of their armies against his troops, he has at last been literally smothered by superior numbers in the region of the Crimea...
...Room of the Union, the Honorable Crawford Vaughan outlined the relations of "Greater Britain and America" from the time when "England ceased to be an empire," in 1775, to the present day. He defined the three great epochs of our country's history as: "first, when we fought for freedom for both ourselves and England; second, when we fought for the unity of the country and the freedom of the slave; and third, when we fought with the other nations for the freedom of the world...