Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against powerful forces. Just what these forces are has become apparent through recent developments in England. In that country, Liberals, Laborites, and left-wing Conservatives have in the past month brought a demand for world federalism into the august halls of Parliament. In pushing the government to make constructive plans for peace, they have made it clear that they feel the first step must be a renunciation of much of England's national sovereignty and empire. On December 5, last Tuesday, Lord Halifax rose in Commons to quash their proposals: "We only court disaster if we forget that no paper...
Advocates of world union must thank Lord Halifax for clarifying an important issue. They now know what they have to fight. No one of them, surely, ever expected to draw up a simple "paper plan" and put it into practice as easily as you would change your summer oil. Fundamental social and economic changes are obviously necessary before the world's way of life can be brought to the perfection they seek. It is clear that Lord Halifax, while he may approve world union in principle, will oppose these very changes with all his power. Everything he and his party...
...election. Ziegler says. The 20 per cent who are left out of this "major part of the pleasant routine life of the Junior and Senior year" are too small a group to make their self-conscious situation bearable, in contrast to the "social security offered by the House plan at Yale and Harvard...
While President of Princeton, Woodrow Wilson had proposed a "Quad Plan" similar to the Harvard-Yale House system, to control the "sideshow that is attempting to run the main tent." But clubmen, some of the faculty and the alumni, defending what was dear to them, defeated the Wilson plan, and he continued to be "president of a country club...
Nassau Eyes House Plan...