Word: misinterpreting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be careful, however", he continued, "not to misinterpret its lessons. We have been allotted a treaty navy. We must expect further conferences in the future. If we desire to wield the influence in future conferences that we did in the past one, we must maintain adequately our treaty navy. Though the Conference has, I am confident, aided the course of peace, I should be either a fool or a knave if I should say there will be no more wars...
...reads editorials, both of which are rare commodities. Unless these articles are plainly labeled "Private" and fenced in a special column with special type, the general reader will appropriate their opinions for his own, without realizing their lack of sound authority. There are always erratically-minded men who will misinterpret any great movement; if we take their distorted notions for the fact, the result is bound to be unfortunate...