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...size and complexities impede rapid unification; 3) It is of no advantage for foreigners to attempt to impede the revolution or to interfere with the normal development of any one of the various governments by not recognizing it or recognizing only its opponents; 4) Nanking, possessing the wealthy background of Shanghai, seems momentarily the most stable of the independent governments. It actually controls more territory and engenders greater confidence among the substantial elements of the Chinese people; 5) The Chinese are unable to control mobs and the rougher elements; hence protection on our part is still necessary and probably will...
Japanese Proposal. Chief Delegate Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito made a very elastic and tentative proposal. His apparent purpose was to keep in the background until Britain and the U. S. showed signs of agreement. His keynote was that the present relative naval strengths of the U. S., Britain and Japan should be established as a permanent status...
...exciting scene depicted on this page . . . is the conclusion of the race between the club boats Huron and Volant which took place on the 16th ult in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. The locality is faithfully represented. The houses in the background of the picture are the fine ones recently built on Western avenue; in front and to the left are Braman's baths and boat houses. From the baths a line was drawn to the judge's boat to form a starting point for the race. The Volant is represented as having crossed it, the Huron...
...been hailed far and wide as the creator of a new literary genre, as the consummate portrait painter of the modern world. Yet he seems to have done no more than to refine and elaborate this theory of a world of material objects. In the selection of a background for the great narrative painting which is "Magic Mountain", Herr Mann has displayed considerable cleverness. He has chosen an Alpine tuberculosis santorium, where life can be studied in simplicity without the usual consequent sacrifice of sophistication...
...sanatorium, a high and chilly retreat, the perspective of life changes. With death for a background, massive and eccentric as the high Alps, the caperings of man seem puny by comparison. The idiotic decadence, the absurdly microscopic preoccupations of humanity are emphasized by their isolation...