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...leadership, Dr. Mott became foreign secretary and then associate general secretary of the international committee of that organization, which latter position he holds at the present day. He has made four trips around the world in connection with this work, and has studied the student problem in many foreign countries...
...important. The defense along the Taglia-mento has called away attention from the present British advance beyond Ypres. This receives no very prominent place in the news; yet it may be of enormous consequence. In the first place, here is further proof that the English have conclusively solved the problem of how to win in trench warfare. The lack of emphasis in the papers only shows that such a drive is more and more a matter of course. Furthermore, unlike other offensives, this is prominent for the ground gained. Communications with Zeebrugee and Ostend are seriously threatened. The fact that...
Nearly every day come reports of strikes, or threats of strikes, from rail-roads, mines, and munition factories, menacing a suspension of those great activities which would spell ruin to the country. The problem thus created is unusually complex; with the rates of transportation or coal production lowered and limited, an increase of wages and a shorter working day in many cases cannot be given. On the other hand, any walk out of the strikers would tie up our whole industrial organization, and make difficult or well-nigh impossible the exportations to our allies at the present hour...
...impossible because of the widely scattered regions in which mining and farming are carried on. What is needed is some means of exerting a constant and universal pressure on the labor population as a whole. The mere arrest of leaders is not enough. The final solution of the problem must be constructive, rather, than has been the case thus far, destructive. Only in this way can those who deserve the severe treatment of the law be sifted from the large majority of right-thinking working men, and the possibility of serious labor disturbances next spring be prevented. The government...
...rolling stock and munitions to credits, must be determined. The apportionment of the world's available tonnage, so that Italy may get her raw materials and France her food and coal, will have to be settled. But the conference will do much more than this. Pressing diplomatic and political problems demand immediate settlement and mutual understanding. The Russian project of an allied declaration affirming the Russian resolutions concerning the independence of Poland, the Balkan problem, and China is one of the most important...