The Forum, Volume 67Forum Publishing Company, 1922 - United States Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements. |
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Page 57 - The Members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations.
Page 57 - The Members of the League agree that the manufacture by private enterprise of munitions and implements of war is open to grave objections. The Council shall advise how the evil effects attendant upon such manufacture can be prevented, due regard being had to the necessities of those Members of the League which are not able to manufacture the munitions and implements of war necessary for their safety.
Page 55 - The maintenance of general peace and a possible reduction of the excessive armaments which weigh upon all nations present themselves in the existing condition of the whole world, as the ideal towards which the endeavors of all Governments should be directed.
Page 213 - No person held to service or labor in one State under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered upon claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Page 215 - The thirteenth amendment prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime. But the exception, allowing full latitude for the enforcement of penal laws, does not destroy the prohibition. It does not permit slavery or involuntary servitude to be established or maintained through the operation of the criminal law by making it a crime to refuse to submit to the one or to render the service which would constitute the other. The state may impose involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime,...
Page 26 - Absorpta est mors in victoria. Ubi est, mors, victoria tua? Ubi est, mors, stimulus tuus?
Page 235 - In the name of Allah, and Allah is Almighty ! (I do this) in hatred of the fiend and to his shame.
Page 181 - Say nothing now, Gawaine." Bedivere sighed, And shook his head : "Morning is not in the west. The sun is rising and the King is coming; Now you may hear him in the corridor, Like a sick landlord shuffling to the light For one last look-out on his mortgaged hills. But hills and valleys are not what he sees; He sees with us the fire — the sign — the law. The King that is the father of the law Is weaker than his child, except he slay it. Not long ago, Gawaine, I had a dream Of a sword over kings,...
Page 60 - the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly Powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire," He was successful in obtaining the assent of the other Powers to the policy thus announced.
Page 243 - Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses?