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...decisive factor in influencing the United States to grant credit. Continuing, the report stated that the Soviet tactics are nothing new in the history of Russia: "Catherine the Great preceded Senators Ladd and King along the road of Russian dupes when she expressed a desire to see her new conquest in southern Russia. Prince Potemkin, her Premier, who had misappropriated all the funds Catherine gave him for the development of southern Russia, took the Empress on a long trip through the country, showing her model villages and happy, singing populations. While the Empress was resting at chateaux along the road...
...meantime General Martinez Anido, Military Governor of Spanish Morocco, threatens to resign unless the Government gives him 30,000 reinforcements and votes a credit of 50,000,000 pesetas. He believes that the only way to effect a permanent and stable government is by military conquest that will create conditions favoring permanency. Again, some Spaniards want to avenge their recent defeat...
Past History. From 1918, after its conquest by British Forces, until July 1, 1920, Palestine remained under British Military Administration. At that date a Civil Administration was set up with the appointment of Sir Herbert Louis Samuel, P. C. (Privy Councillor), G. B. E. (Knight Grand Cross Order of the British Empire), as High Commissioner...
...Utopia by the Utopian scientists that the mere arrival of the Earthlings sets up an epidemic. They are put in quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them, after hair-breadth adventures?they are shot back violently to earth via Utopian wireless?and he remains in Utopia for some time, studying its civilization. Finally, he returns?it is the only...
After him came many generations of authors, all hoping for an "Italia liberata". Some, with Dante, desired an emperor; some hoped for a confederation of the various free cities; and some expected conquest by a single state. Finally, the event occurred in a manner slightly different from that which any one had anticipated...