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Roger Baldwin, head of the Civil Liberties Union, an organization which defends radicals and works for the release of " political prisoners...
Deborah Gannett, under the name of Robert Shurtleff, served for two and a half years in the Revolutionary War, was wounded at Tarrytown and present when Cornwallis surrendered. The other, whose surname was Hodgers and first name remains unknown, went through the Civil War in the 95th Illinois Infantry, served at Vicksburg, Franklin, Pulaski, Lawrenceburg and other battlefields. Later she was pensioned and became an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois. Her sex was discovered when she was hurt in an automobile accident...
...Answering a question as to why the League did not interfere in the civil war in Ireland: "The League of Nations exists necessarily not to deal with internal affairs, however deplorable, however dangerous they may be. ... At the same time- for I want to give as full an answer as I can-if there were any assurances given to the League of Nations that its decisions would be acceptable to the parties-I mean this very seriously-I am quite sure that the League would be ready to do whatever it could to put an end to the struggles that...
...classes most eager to emigrate are former Austro-Hungarian army officers, discharged civil servants, skilled factory hands and thousands of well-educated young women previously engaged in war work. Agricultural laborers, miners, etc., are not seeking to leave their country...
...Bagdad the civil jail was destroyed, but the prisoners were saved. The embankment round the city is holding and there is no fear of its crumbling. King Feisal is said to be personally responsible for saving the palace and the cultivated land near it. His bodyguard, under his supervision and spurred on by encouraging strains from an Arab band, repaired damage to the embankment encircling the royal property...