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...people with an inventory of his accomplishments and his failures. As yet there has been no formal announcement that such a tour will occur, but inasmuch as certain details of it are becoming known-that it will contain 20 chief speeches, that it will cover the entire country from coast to coast, that it will include a trip to Alaska-it is considered a virtual certainty. The impression which Mr. Harding makes on that tour will be an important factor in the election of 1924. The speeches he will deliver are being heralded as the basis of the Republican platform...
...special senate for foreign affairs" is what Frank A. Vanderlip, the New York banker, proposed in a speech on the Pacific Coast. Instability and ignorance are the faults for which Mr. Vanderlip blames our present system of conducting foreign relations - policies changing every four years, new and untrained amateurs saddled with the responsibilities of diplomacy. This is his proposal: A body of mature men, elected from the United States at large, for not less than ten years each; five members to change at each congressional election; half the body would form a quorum; the remainder would travel abroad as part...
...that the Ruhr was the strategic road to the North Sea. This thought of Napoleon's . . . is gradually taking shape in Premier Poincaré's policy . . . it is only a short distance from the Ruhr to the North Sea. . . . France could seize the North Sea coast in no time if she were allowed to keep the Ruhr territory. France will then be able to use it as a strategic naval base against England...
During the war one of the principal aims of the German High Command was to secure a foothold on the north French sea coast for the identical purpose that Herr Sprengler attributed to the French policy...
...left New York harbor for English ports. Guided by wireless, the seaplane will alight near a liner and be hoisted aboard. The wings are to be of the folding type, which reduces considerably the space required for storing. When the ship is still hundreds of miles from the English coast the plane will be hoisted overboard and will fly away with the mail...