Date: June 9, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) An incomprehensible suggestion constantly appearing is that our taxpayers should pay the nations of Europe billions of dollars for disarming. This is presumably by a cancellation of their debts. It is difficult to connect cancellation and disarmament. In the first place, Europe agreed with […]
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Date: July 16, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA Summary: Coolidge laments that the world appears to be on track for more war and did not pursue a more peaceful path after World War I (Original document available here) The world does not make real progress as fast as some expected. Like backward people with free constitutions reverting […]
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Date: January 21, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) The situation between France and Italy again illustrates how extremely difficult it is for nations to get away from the age-old policy of trying to rely mostly on force for Security. Those nations were unable to agree on naval armaments at the London conference. They […]
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Date: February 15, 1929 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) Within two or three weeks I conferred with some of the Senators relative to railroad consolidation legislation. They thought at that time it might be possible to secure the passage of a bill at this session. I do not think that later developments have […]
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Date: November 13, 1923 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) The class doesn’t seem to be so inquisitive this morning as it sometimes is. There isn’t a very large crop of questions. I hope that doesn’t indicate that anybody is disappointed at not getting a reply always. I think I almost always cover in […]
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