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France thought and continues to think otherwise. She does not trust Germany. She holds that Germany will avoid all obligations she is not actually compelled to meet. Whether the French interpre- tation of the German attitude be right or wrong, French action based on that interpretation has had unfortunate results. In the first place, it has made a fair test of Germany's willingness and ability to pay impossible. In the second place, reparations problems have become inextricably confused with political and military problems and purposes...
...should not how do an admittedly right action for fear you, or your equally timid successors, should not have the courage to do right in some future case, which, 'ex hypothesi', is essentially different, but superficially resembles the present one. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time...
...Fortunately, these surface disturbances are hardly typical of the whole body of church goers. Religion is still an unquestioned part of the lives of an overwhelming though silent majority of the population. The Church continues to be a necessary function of society. The question of who is right or wrong in the New York controversy is of minor importance. The mere fact that so much popular interest has been roused, and that the newspapers have found it worth their while to give it so much space, is the most encouraging evidence that the public is still awake to religion...
...good many cases these hidden attacks can be traced to the professional sporting writers and they are largely responsible for the wrong interpretations put upon Dean Briggs's recent report...
...present instance. An accidentally misplaced comma caused weeks of argument on Article X of the Versailles treaty. There is even less difficulty in stirring up trouble intentionally. Headlines can always be written to read two ways, a report can be garbled, and emphasis can be put on the wrong phrase. The result,--the product of exaggeration and misrepresentation.--will furnish sporting columns with gossip for a fortnight, but it is unlikely to accomplish anything else. The cry of "Wolf! Wolf!" has been raised too often. The relations between Harvard. Princeton, and Yale are too firmly established to lead...