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...cite General Sherrill, Colonel William Hayward, Colonel Arthur Little and Major Hamilton Fish, all of whom repeatedly and in public have spoken and written in the warmest term's of the devoted loyalty, the unflagging cheerfulness and the unexceled bravery of the Negro troops under their command. Moreover, two of the officers I have named expressed amazement that any troops could bear up under the continual insult, calumny and indignities visited upon the colored men in their command by white men and officers presumably harboring just such an attitude as is revealed in the article of General Bullard...
Surprise in Belgium was quickly clouded by well-founded pessimism. Such a Cabinet would never command support from Parliament. Premier Poullet was wary. He did not lead his Cabinet into the Chamber of Deputies, as did his predecessors, and bluntly demand a vote of confidence. Instead, he put the onus of responsibility on the Catholic Party by asking its representatives in the Senate and Chamber if they were prepared to support his Government.* The Catholic Senators voted no confidence, 36 to 22. The Catholic Deputies voted no confidence...
Exodus. Brigham spellbound the leaderless city, seized command, sold the Mormon temple to a French Communist, led his people a dire trek westward to escape U. S. jurisdiction. By the time they reached Utah, the U. S. had taken that territory from Mexico, but Brigham settled there notwithstanding...
...Significance. It is proper and profitable that a nautical, critical immigrant who has written so noteworthy a book as Casuals of the Sea and such commendable books as Captain Macedoinc's Daughter, Aliens and Command, and who now purposes to become a U. S. citizen, anchored for further writing (a sequel to Race) at Westport, Conn., should remind his new countrymen of the texture of his thought. Grimly opposed to "sea stuff," particularly in the magazines of a landlubber nation, he is himself by no means all sailor. His concern is the large "ineluctable problem of human folly...
French continued his ascent to the top with painstaking, plodding slowness. In the South African War, he was recognized as a commander of great ability, returned home after the peace and was knighted. At the beginning of the World War, having been created a Field Marshal in 1913, he commanded Britain's first expeditionary force. In 1915, he retired in favor of Sir Douglas Haig, returned to England, assumed command of the vast armies stationed in Britain. He was made a viscount, chose the name of Ypres, accepted the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland and held that position until...