Word: ruhr
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...latter goal is widespread, but all the more room for observation and criticism--a vast area for picking up moral gems in favor of isolation. At the present time, Senator Hirarn Johnson is on his pilgrimage through this tempestuous land of strains and stressed and is last approaching the Ruhr, determined to seek out the rights and wrongs of matters there...
...participants in the Ruhr wrestling match evidently regard the Senator as Justice blindfolded with the scales in his hand, for they are preparing in hot haste their opposing cases. The French, although having little in the way of productive results to display, will show what a peaceful atmosphere hovers over the disputed territory. The Germans will try to prove how much more ruined they are now than when they declared themselves completely ruined. Imaginations on both sides will fly high and far, but judging from current reports the German imagination will fly much the higher and farther. The Ruhr German...
...this rock of observation that the barque of German contentions is likely to founder. There will be difficulty in concealing the five enormous banks and public offices now under construction in Dusseldorf, the new plants and houses which have sprung up and are springing up throughout the Ruhr, the workmen who are drawing daily pay for knitting on their jobs. What Senator Johnson will think of all this it is impossible to guess. Senators always go abroad with their bags well packed with preconceived conclusions and Mr. Johnson's are made of sturdy material. But the country will not have...
...student referendum, Yale has voiced an opinion justifying France for her action in the Ruhr, and though generally opposed to the present attitude of aloofness on the part of the United States, at least favored non-interference in the present crisis. Whatever view history may take of France's steps of reprisal, or whatever plans may now be simmering in the minds of our striving statesmen, the opinion expressed as coming from a representative group of American students, is both significant and impressive...
...that of the entrance of the United States into the World Court as suggested by President Harding. At its previous meetings the Debating Union has considered the questions of the recognition of Russia by the United States the Jones Ship Subsidy bill, and the French policy in the Ruhr...