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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...went to New York. Bueno Varella, a journalist, gave them encouragement. He told them to start the revolt and they would get help from the United States, but he was merely guessing. They revolted, and United States warships were sent to preserve order. President Roosevelt, being a man who never goes around a table if he can jump over it, seized the opportunity for acquiring the Canal Zone. The Treaty of 1846 was clearly violated, and the Colombians naturally resent...
...close touch with the military instruction there. His unique experiences include actual flights over the battlefields and he has also been a witness of several Zeppelin raids on Paris. Mr. Prince will show lantern slides of the training at the Pan-Aerodrome, and pictures of Norman Prince which have never before been shown in this country...
Slowly, like an impotent dream which winds on and never ends, the machinery of our National Government has revolved through the President, through the Senate, through the House, till that declaration which would have been made before the elapse of one hour in a despotic government has now been evolved...
...twilight of the lesser gods. Germany could have conquered Russia. She might have overrun France. She could never subdue England. She may not defend herself against them all with America and her utmost strength joined...
...history. Five times before, as dependent colonies, as a small republic, as a great Power, it has raised the standard of battle. Each time it was goaded to humiliation before it was willing to enter on the final and most awful test of national greatness. We have never rushed blindly nor conquest-mad to war. We do not rush blindly now. We have endured beyond the point of all endurance, because the sense of justice and forebearance is so keen in us as a people that we hesitate lest one right thinking man might say we have been over-hasty...