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Sandoval had the bad judgment to imply that Messrs. Almy and Gaar had helped themselves to the shipment, and were now "dancing on the ruins." Two things were certain these six years after the war: the inducements had never reached the harpies, and Mrs. Gaar's garnet bracelets and the beginnings of the "elegant and commodious" mansion on the Hudson had come to light shortly after the money had disappeared there from...
...authority which a verdict coming from the whole empire would give it. If, as the treaty act requires, he must, as a last resort, proceed with the appointment of the Boundary Commission and enforce its findings in the face of a contumacious Ulster, it is well that the judgment of the empire should have been expressed on the side of legality...
...memory every Englishman delights to honour, Walter H. Page, wrote in a letter published in his biography: "The ignorance, each of the other (i. e. the American and English nations) is beyond all belief." Strong, unqualified words coming from a man in the best position to form a sound judgment. Not one man in 1000 of either nation knows anything worth while about the other nation. This fundamental and wide-spread ignorance is the reason why the politicians and diplomatists have failed. How can 200 millions of people sprayed over half the face of the earth separated by thousands...
...United States. If world affairs are to be set in anything like proper order in the near future, a prerequisite is Anglo-American co-operation. The chances that this can be brought about through international sport are far greater between two countries whose national psychology and standards of judgment are so closely related, than between peoples whose points of similarity and consequent opportunities for sympathetic appreciation are less numerous and more fundamentally limited...
...gift; that they execute in such form as the President may approve an agreement to construct and equip an administration building, a library building, and such other buildings described in the official statement, a copy of which has been handed by Bishop Lawrence to the giver, as in the judgment of the Corporation are required for the present needs of the School and its needs in the immediate future; and that all such buildings be identified as the George F. Baker Foundation. "Very truly yours, "(Signed) A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...