Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Holmes: Is Violence the Way Out? Report on the Steel Strike of 1919.
Fabre: Life of the Spider.
Mallock: Memoirs of Life and Literature.
It is a disillusioned world which realizes that whether diplomacy or democracy is to blame, the fact remains that Point One is irretrievably lost, and that international faith has swung back to the old policy of jealously guarded silence.
The diplomats, however, are not to be too severely criticised. They are but playing the game as they have known it all their lives. Were America-participating in this first meeting, or had Mr. Wilson been a little more firm, matters might be different. But America is not as yet...