Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Other and important reservations were adopted by the Senate, all considered necessary to safeguard and protect American rights. The United States has asked nothing in the peace settlement and has received and desires nothing except the security and peace of the world. That peace, a majority of the Senate believes, cannot be achieved through the League of Nations as agreed to at Versailles. We cannot amend the League as it applies to other nations but we are determined that it shall be made safe for the United States
...special industrial branch of the government should be organized to carry on research work, and to make available data essential to the settlement of a crisis such as that just caused by the coal strike. The will is not lacking but the material is not now at hand...
...does not settle any of the vexed questions now facing the country as the result of the conflict between capital and labor; its only real constructive force is that it aims to create special industrial courts to decide industrial matters. Such a system would bring us nearer an equitable settlement of disputes without resort to strikes. But an industrial court is not enough; definite principles in the form of a code are needed. The conference did not show where the line is to be drawn between industries whose maintenance is essential to the life of the nation and in which...