Word: questions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lack of access to the sea is one of the greatest incentives for a nation to wage war; it dominated Russian policy for a century and a half. Flume is the chief and almost the only port in the long expanse of shallow beaches between Trieste and Montenegro. The question is not one of Flume, but of the hinterland of Flume. Is the port more important to the hinterland or to Italy, whose object, says Premier Nitti, "has after all merely sentimental value"? Will not the good will of the Jugoslavs be of more value to Italy than the military...
...Italian government wishes to reconcile America, it must show that it intends to abide by the decision of the peace conference in regard to the Adriatic question, and that it is prepared to alter its policy as a result of the recent elections. The question of supplying raw materials and credit must depend largely on the improvement of Italy's precarious financial situation. As for d'Annunzio--we would like to see a drive started to raise funds for sending him and his army to capture Shantung for the Chinese...
...nation; there is no beating around the bush. He suggests the budget system as a vital need in this time of vast expenditures. The necessity of such a system has been long realized; it has been blocked right along by the "pork-barrel" specialists in the House. The question of simplified income taxes shows that while the President has been in the sick-bed he has not lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts to us; at the same time he points...
Leaving the purely literary publications, a large division of the catalogue is devoted to business and public affairs. The books of six professors in the University are given, dealing with all aspects of the many economic questions. R. F. Foerster's book on "Italian Emigration," which will be ready for sale in a few days, has been declared the best and most authoritative book published on this question. The last group comprises seven books on the collected addresses of Elihu Root, LL.D., '07, edited by Robert Bacon '94 and James B. Scott...
Radical labor was taught a lesson in the Massachusetts election, but it was not a constructive lesson. The real question of how a workingman can improve his conditions of labor has yet to be answered. At the present time the strike is the only means available. Public opinion is against the strike. So is labor; a strike is as hard on the worker as it is on anybody else. But a Labor Administration would be beer and skittles for everyone except capital and the public. It is not hard to see who would be on the top of the heap...