Word: prone
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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With our safe remoteness and our incomplete knowledge of the facts it is not surprising that some of us should have branded this action as "French aggression." Dangers which seem very large across the Rhine are apt to appear very small across the Atlantic. We are still prone to regard the armistice, or at any rate the signing of the Treaty, as marking the end, rather than the beginning, of the world's troubles. Europe, with more reason, regards the dangers as still in existence. France has today a population just half the size of Germany's; and her industrial...
...fundamental problem, as Colonel Woods pointed out the other night at the Union, is to win the confidence and sympathy of the alien. The average native citizen is too apt to regard the alien as a being apart; and he is prone to work out his own plans for the alien's salvation, without knowing much about the workings of the alien's mind. But a man cannot be cured of his ills, either physical or mental, without his own consent and active assistance. If we are to solve the problem of the foreign-born population, it can only...