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...real object in life is to find the problems", said President Lowell in his address at the annual spring banquet of the Business School Club in the Living Room of the Union last night. President Lowell pointed out that after a problem has been stated, it is three quarters solved. This is as true in life as in business, he declared...
...present trend. A curious combination of economic dependence with political and social dissatisfaction has given rise to a most difficult situation, which such forces as the Ku Klux have only made more acute. At first glance "The Minute Men" are directed against the Klan, but essentially their object is much the same. Both societies seek a return to conditions once considered normal,--which may never be normal again. Influences which even General Dawes is powerless to control are forcing America as well as Europe to gradual changes of external policy, to revisions of government, to paternalism rather than individualism. "Hell...
...object of the Turks in ratifying the concessions to Admiral Chester is so diaphanous that they can hardly be credited with their usual clever cunning. The Allies and the United States are hardly likely to fall out about these concessions, which, after all, are not so conflicting as the press makes out, when the International Court is ready to settle the whole matter in a peaceable manner. The Turks forget that they and their diplomacy are well known all over the world and especially in Europe; thus, with everyone on the alert, the worst effect of their scheming will...
Herr Breitscheidt then suggested that Germany adopt the plan for payment of reparations put forward by M. Louis Barthou on behalf of France and M. Delacroix on behalf of Belgium, by which 35,000,000,000 gold marks were demanded. " What we object to in the plan," said he, " is the stipulation for the progressive evacuation of the Ruhr and its failure to reimburse Germany for the costs of maintaining the armies of occupation...
...Edouard Benes, Czecho-Slovakian Foreign Minister, abandoned a projected visit to Warsaw, capital of Poland, on account of strong opposition shown by the Polish public. The object of Dr. Benes' visit was to induce Poland to enter the Little Entente-Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania. But Polish public opinion is against such a step...