Word: long
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...group of Americans who follow foreign affairs supported President Wilson. Lack of access to the sea is one of the greatest incentives for a nation to wage war; it dominated Russian policy for a century and a half. Flume is the chief and almost the only port in the long expanse of shallow beaches between Trieste and Montenegro. The question is not one of Flume, but of the hinterland of Flume. Is the port more important to the hinterland or to Italy, whose object, says Premier Nitti, "has after all merely sentimental value"? Will not the good will...
This opinion is too absurd to be permitted to stand. But the first move to eradicate it must come from us. If some little notice on our part were given to the West, such as taking the trouble to send a football team on a long tour, the West will not be slow in response. Such action could not bear the stigma of propaganda. It would be no more than healthy community interest...
...after all, the Jenkins affair is only one of a long series of intolerable situations. The Mexican government has proved conclusively that it does not want or has not the power to keep order. Discounting the "shady" activities of American capitalists, discounting the exaggerated rumors of border outrages, the people of the United States have strong grounds for exasperation. Mexico is a thorn a their side seemingly impossible to extract...
...intention of the would be assassins to block any action on the Treaty of Versailles. They talk of setting internal troubles, letting the matter of the ratification of the Treaty go another year, and making it a party issue next fall. It has been a party issue long enough. Verily it may he said of the Wilful Fifty that having eyes they see not; having ears they hear not. May the Sanders Theatre meeting utter a few thoughts loud enough to make the blind and deaf ones in Washington leave off their pettifogging for a moment and give heed...
...tuition fee will apply only to students entering after September 1, 1920. Those who are now attending the Law School will continue to pay the present rate as long as they remain...