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BERNARD M. BARUCH, adviser to President Wilson on financial questions at Paris: "President Wilson never made any secret compact with anybody about anything at the Paris Peace Conference. . . . I don't know just what Mr. Lloyd George refers to. Let him produce the documents, if he believes there was a 'secret compact.' But I do not hesitate to make explicit denial, because I know Mr. Wilson never was a party to and never had any secret compacts whatever over there...
QUAI D'ORSAY, French Foreign Office, in an official communique: "The French Government reserves its reply to the allegations of Mr. Lloyd George until it is in possession of the exact text." ... There was concluded no secret compact between M. Clemenceau and Mr. Wilson, and if there were conversations between them during the absence of Mr. Lloyd George, the latter knew of the result as soon as he returned...
...Bastian, being a copyreader for the Chicago Tribune and a lecturer in news editing at the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University, has had every opportunity to make a careful study of his subject, and the result of his study is a compact and very readable book of interest alike to the student of journalism, the young journalist, and the layman who just wants to satisfy his natural curiosity as to what makes the journalistic wheels go 'round...
...return to the subject in hand. With a view to its use as a textbook, Mr. Basian's work is divided into five parts, dealing respectively with "Newspapers and News", "Reading Copy", "Headlines", "Makeup", and "Pictures, Sunday Newspapers, and Routine". The text, in true journalistic style, is clear, compact, and interesting. Every point made is carefully illustrated by examples, chosen with great care from leading American papers or written by the author on the basis of his wide experience...
...about to take place. Outside, the trial by fire is about to begin. The young gallant enters by a chimney. There is a; disturbance. The gallant makes a bargain with the zealot father. If the trial by fire does not take place, he shall have the girl. The compact is no more than sealed when a deluge of rain outside extinguishes the flames in which the test was to be made, and the ordeal cannot be held...