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...Valley of the Saar, Professor Haskins showed how it became an interrelated problem of the Rhine and a phase of the question of Alsace-Lorraine. He also clearly described the French boundary lines through history, saying that the loss of the frontier of 1814 to Prussia remained a sore point with France until it was swallowed up in the greater loss of 1871. When the recovery of Alsace-Lorraine in 1918 revived the question of their former boundaries, it was natural to inquire what the intervening century had brought forth...
There will be a special meeting of the Harvard Liberal Club tomorrow at 12.45 o'clock in the Colonial Room of the Crawford House. Mr. James Mackaye '95 will speak on "Intelligent vs. Blind Voting." Mr. Mackaye has long made a study of the problem. "How to get real election news to the people...
What is most disheartening about the whole problem is that no public opinion has formed on the subject in those countries who are not directly interested in annexing territory. In the United States few people are aware of any issue. We read the German treaty with some interest, but we neglected the Austrian Treaty beyond noticing its existence, and the Bulgarian Treaty might quite as well never have been written so far as American opinion is concerned...
...Balkan problem underlies more previous wars than any other international difficulty. If we are to hope for real results from the League of Nations we must apply all our experience as a nation to this hotbed in Southwestern Europe. There must exist a solution to the problem. If we emphasized the idea of a federation with local autonomy but a common purpose, rather than self-determination, we should accomplish much towards peace. And what country is in a better position to discuss federalism than the United States? The problem of the thirteen colonies was only a simplified version...
Each year our government finds itself faced with the problem of extending state control to new fields. Those conditions of individual freedom from restraint, which once seemed so easily possible, have given way before the tremendous increase in our population, and the growth of specialized vocations and modern industry...