Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Assembly next meets, one vital question is sure to arise: the relations of the Assembly to the Council. Those who designed the League adopted the theory that the five Powers must be given special privileges and authority if they were to become members; at the same time it was thought that the smaller nations would feel so grateful for remaining intact after the War that they would willingly concede this power. No sooner had the session begun, however, than it was evident that these lesser nations were bent on making the Assembly, instead of the Council, the leading body...
...most notable literary biographies of recent years. This biography of one of America's foremost historians tells, largely in Fiske's own words, of his boyhood and youth, his early championship of the "cosmic philosophy," his intimate association with such leaders of thought as Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin and his services as an historian and man of letters. The biographer, a life-long friend and associate of Fiske, has written with unusual intimacy and understanding and by his extensive use of Fiske's own lively letters and journals, gives a peculiarly vivid picture, both of Fiske himself...
...anon doggedly, but the whole is so very mild and chastened that one cannot help attributing it to sadness at an abbreviated Christmas vacation. Such, at least, is the key-note set by the leading editorial with its pathetic plea for a longer holiday, and each succeeding Christmas thought follows hard on the heels of another with an uncanny restraint...
Ever since the plebiscite in Austria rejected the plea for pan-Germanism, it has been evident that Germany's former ally has broken free of Prussian influence and Prussian modes of thought. The recent news from Geneva confirms this evidence; Austria, feeling that it is better to be a repentant member of the League rather than a defiant outcast, has faithfully complied with the treaty stipulations and has finally gained admission to the Geneva assembly. Except for Turkey, Germany has lost her last supporter...
...definite parting of the ways between herself and her ally will bring home to her the full consciousness of the unwisdom of her policy. Perhaps it will but increase her defiance. Certainly the former probability is the most desirable; there are too many latent forces of literary and scientific thought and accomplishment in Germany to have them thrown away in useless pursuit of a rainbow's end. Were Germany to realize this, and make some attempt to free herself, as has Austria, from the grasp of Prussianism, not only she, but the world as well, would profit...