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...humanitarian work. Dr Nansen received this year the Nobel Peace Prize and he is without doubt one of the foremost figures among the active workers of the league of Nations. He is said to be an excellent speaker and to possess a perfect command of English...
...from that territory must be placed to the credit of reparations- as there could be no question of paying France and Belgium for an illegal occupation. When the Chancellor's letter was shown to Colonel Georges, acting for General Dégoutte, who is the French general in command of the occupational forces, he jumped up and exclaimed: " We cannot continue to negotiate with you. That letter proves you are not private individuals but the official representatives of the German Government, and with that Government our Government refuses to negotiate under the present circumstances. Gentlemen...
...there are few who care just how hard Lake could plunge, or how many men Heffelfinger could take care of at once. The stars of today command all the attention and their admirers follow every action blissfully indifferent to the fact that in another twenty-five years few will care or remember where the immortal Whoozis caught that pass or how many tackles the great Whats-isname made in the 1923 game. Even the Stadium itself may have passed into oblivion obscured by some new structure which dwarfs the present one. But for undergraduates of today there is no game...
...modern "Sherlock Holmes" seems to be following Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into the realm of the psychic. No longer does Scotland Yard, at the all-powerful command of Doyle, call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only...
...Kahr was offered the post of National Protector, à la Horthy in Hungary, which he accepted. His companions, Minister President von Knilling and Minister of Interior Schweier, were arrested and imprisoned. General Ludendorff was given command of the Army, which he accepted, and said: "We have reached the turning point in the history of Germany and the world. God bless our work...