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[[red underline]] are the class of people who will go in raptures before a Greek Poem or a poem in any other language they do not understand but remain placid and unmoved before any of our modern achievements in human thought or work. because familiarity breeds contempt and what they can see with their own eyes does not inspire them except to arouse their criticism. [[/red underline]] The fact that the Nations should have been willing to undertake the framing of the covenant is in itself a matter which seemed a hopeless impossibility so few years ago when the idea was [[red underline]] first brought x out here in the United States [[/red underline]] Nowhere else did it receive any support. I heard it treated with derision not only 
[[vertical notation in left margin]] x By Theodore Roosevelt [[/left margin]]
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in Germany but in England France and even in Belgium It was considered like one of their visionary crazy american conceptions, hiding underneath low cunning and danger. The Hague Congress was killed in the bud because functionally every nations picked out carefully its representatives [[red underline]] so as to knock the child in the head as soon as it was born. [[/red underline]] There were few exceptions [[red underline]] Andrew D. White [[/red underline]] of the United States was one of those exceptions but even his colleague [[red underline]] Mahon, [[/red underline]] famous as he is as a historian in Naval matters was a [[red underline]] hopeless pessimist in any attempt to rescue peace or any attempt at disarmament [[red underline]] Germany's representatives were so bitterly and clumsily opposed to the whole [[/red underline]] scheme that their clumsy boorish attitude