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...importance of the bill, then, does not lie in any sudden gift of war-powers to the Executive, but in that it will enable the United States to cooperate more effectively with the League in the settlement of disputes between smaller nations. American under Stimson's leadership has been working towards a closer concurrence with that body, which thought somewhat discredited of late, will obtain a fairer test of its abilities if it can depend more confidently on President Roosevelt's support...
...separation from his first wife Marion, daughter of Manhattan's late Mayor William Jay Gaynor, he enlisted as a British Army private, rose to lieutenant colonel, won a Commandership of the Order of the British Empire. Last week his lawyer said he hoped for an out-of-court settlement to avoid a scandalous "confession...
...Chang was permitted to proclaim that his sole purpose was to die for China, battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese division. With that proclamation properly published, Young Chang took off from Peiping in his luxurious trimotored plane for the safety of the Shanghai International Settlement. From there he proposed to sail at once for Europe-oblivious to the fate of 150,000 Chinese soldiers whom he left stranded in Jehol and the Peiping area. The official flourish of abdication (for it amounted to that) was made in high Chinese style by the Young Marshal, thus...
...these debts; few who really understand the history of them deny that they are just. But there come times to all of us when we have to make compromises. That time has come with the war debts and the duty of the Democratic Administration is to reach a final settlement which will be really advantageous to the American people. This duty for the Democrats has become an opportunity because both Senate and House are overwhelmingly Democratic. Americans will watch and wait, hopefully, and with all friendly wishes to the President...
Latin America is in dangerous ebullition. Here again the Democrats face dangers and must seize the great opportunity to show that the United States is always willing to cooperate, never to dictate. The days of settlement by the marines are mercifully over. Every Latin American nation is as proud of its independence as we are. We must help them to be proud because they are making the rest of the world respect them. There has never been a time when Latin America as a whole held the United States in greater respect. The Democrats must build even higher on that...