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...object of the statesman's visit is of an unofficial nature, but he will be ready to give his views on the League if called upon...
...with the thorns of imperial rivalries. Due to a military incident war with England was threatened over Fashoda, a mud village in the heart of Africa. Later, when diplomatic relations had been strengthened by the Entente Cordiale, came the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Tangiers with the ulterior object of testing the young Franco-British friendship. The visit caused the downfall of Delcassé, but his diplomatic triumph became evident in later years when Germany found that her filibustering attempts in Morocco had succeeded in alienating the whole world except obsequious Austria...
...appearing in special matinees of a new dramatization of the familiar story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Emphasis is placed less on the romantic phase of the situation and more on the mental struggle of Dr. Jekyll than in the former dramatization. It is maintained that Stevenson's chief object was to emphasize the moral effect of the habit of evil on a character normally good...
...object of the incendiaries is an attack upon the Church their methods are ingeniously calculated to defeat their own ends. Popular feeling both in America and in Canada is strongly in sympathy with the churchless Catholics...
...code that can be easily deciphered is worthless-except when it is a law code. A law code succeeds by being easy to read. A new organization, The American Law Institute, met in Washington with the object of simplifying American Law. William Howard Taft presided at the first meeting, Elihu Root was the chief speaker, prominent judges, prominent lawyers, and prominent professors were there to help bring the matter to a successful conclusion...