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...mile race is the one the Frenchmen will probably enter. According to Andree, formerly a high jumper, but now one of the fastest quarter-millers in France, the team will probably consist of Delvart, Ferry, Mercevy and himself the same combination that finished third in last year's championship Olympic race...
...loudly at the high-handed conduct of the French officials, and at being forcefully "annexed" without its consent. Furthermore, the agitation in favor of independence is spreading steadily throughout the districts. Is it for this then, that France has waited fifty years; is it for this that thousands of Frenchmen gave their lives in the great war; and for this that the Strass-bourg statue was draped in black for two generations? Such seems indeed to be the case...
...restoration and protection of France. It was not the least of the services performed for France by that wise old man, George Clemenceau, that he refused to be swept on by the extremists and limited his ultimate demands to the substantial results which the treaty secured. Comparatively few Frenchmen demanded the outright annexation of the left bank, the speaker admitted, nor was the number large who wished to prepare for it by an indefinitely prolonged military occupation. It was maintained that this was the real frontier of all the Allies, the front line that must be held at all cost...
...growing class of men who want more than a reading knowledge. They are the men who will fill diplomatic posts, positions as representatives of great banking or commercial houses--an ever increasing group of participants in world trade and international transactions. They want to be able to deal with Frenchmen, Germans, and South Americans without the hinderance of interpreters...
Today is the birthday of the man who won France to the aid of the American Colonies in their struggle for independence--Benjamin Franklin. The debt we owe France can never be paid. It is not alone a National debt. It is also a personal debt of Americans to Frenchmen. This is best shown by a letter of Franklin addressed to President Washington, June...