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...wretched peasantry was already starving because of another parasite, the English landlord. Between 1845 and 1860, in the greatest disaster since the Napoleonic Wars, 1,000,000 Irish died directly because of potato fungus, and 1,500,000 emigrated. English industrialists used the Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event in the history of the British Empire." Reason: it inaugurated Free Trade and the Empire's Golden Age. Groused the Duke of Wellington: "Rotten potatoes have done...
Answered Bailey readily: "I have utterly changed my mind. . . . I was devoted to the Neutrality Act. I know now that I am advocating its repeal. . . . I am now advocating intervention. . . . I am not advocating that we go to war. . . . But do not misunderstand me, I am advocating intervention with all its implications. I am not hedging. All my life I have looked a thing in the face and argued...
...week later, on October 4, he endorsed the repeal of the arms embargo in a public letter to Landon. He flatly stated that his beliefs were not those of war-mongers, and added. "The question is, is it to the long-run advantage of the United States to sell these arms or not. The question is not shall we declare...
...would like to point out that the programs of the two organizations conflict in many respects. The American Youth Congress opposes American aid to England; it has opposed at every step the national defense program; at present it is opposing the House Resolution 1776, and is advocating the repeal of conscription. The Harvard Liberal Union favors aid to England and to China, the building of a strong national defense, and above all it emphasizes the need of carrying out these measures in a democratic fashion...
...When conscription gets repeal...