America's Day: Studies in Light and ShadeDodd, Mead, 1918 - 425 страница |
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... hand , New York and Washington laughed at the prairie politics of Hickory Creek , where the cowboy- statesman started a war - withering simoon in his local pa- per , comparing the American soldier to a watchmaker on the Congo - a man ...
... hand , New York and Washington laughed at the prairie politics of Hickory Creek , where the cowboy- statesman started a war - withering simoon in his local pa- per , comparing the American soldier to a watchmaker on the Congo - a man ...
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... hand the Babylonian splendour of Newport , and on the other hand negro squalor in the " Black Belt " of Mississippi , where the white man is in a minority , and racial hatred is for ever smouldering . I hope I convey some idea of the ...
... hand the Babylonian splendour of Newport , and on the other hand negro squalor in the " Black Belt " of Mississippi , where the white man is in a minority , and racial hatred is for ever smouldering . I hope I convey some idea of the ...
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... social experiment on the hugest scale , preferring its own mistakes to our experience . America is a noisy palæstra of sleepless wit and unresting hands . Its strenuous aura is best felt in the personal formula of George W. 8 AMERICA'S DAY.
... social experiment on the hugest scale , preferring its own mistakes to our experience . America is a noisy palæstra of sleepless wit and unresting hands . Its strenuous aura is best felt in the personal formula of George W. 8 AMERICA'S DAY.
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... hands . " Keep away from Congress , " General Wotherspoon warned his colleagues on his retirement . For he also was an alarmist ; a man of conscience and plain professional speaking about a small and dwindling army , and a system of ...
... hands . " Keep away from Congress , " General Wotherspoon warned his colleagues on his retirement . For he also was an alarmist ; a man of conscience and plain professional speaking about a small and dwindling army , and a system of ...
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... Regular Army a chance to recruit and make ready ; it was at that time 34,307 men below its peace strength under the new law . On the other hand , the Navy was 2000 officers and 60,000 REVELATION FROM THE HILL OF MARS 15.
... Regular Army a chance to recruit and make ready ; it was at that time 34,307 men below its peace strength under the new law . On the other hand , the Navy was 2000 officers and 60,000 REVELATION FROM THE HILL OF MARS 15.
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Страница 320 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Страница 412 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Страница 379 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Страница 361 - The territorial sovereignty of China, nevertheless, remains unimpaired and the Government of the United States has every confidence in the repeated assurances of the Imperial Japanese Government that while geographical position gives Japan such special interests they have no desire to discriminate against the trade of other nations or to disregard the commercial rights heretofore granted by China in treaties with other powers.
Страница 251 - Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff!
Страница 298 - O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Страница 411 - ... freedom. I do not doubt that the sentiments you have expressed will be sustained by your great nation ; and, on the other hand, I have no hesitation in assuring you that they will excite admiration, esteem, and the most reciprocal feelings of friendship among the American people.
Страница 343 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Страница 319 - I refuse to believe that it is the intention of the German authorities to do in. fact what they have warned us they will feel at liberty to do.
Страница 361 - The Governments of the United States and Japan recognize that territorial propinquity creates special relations between countries, and, consequently, the Government of the United States recognizes that Japan has special interests in China, particularly in the part to which her possessions are contiguous.