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...York City: "Health officials said they would be unable to predict whether it would be safe to open the schools on Sept. 9 as scheduled. . . . This week should mark the peak of the current outbreak. . . . The death rate this year has been exceptionally low, less than...
...daring pre-War imaginations could not visualize it. The theme of Jules Remains' Men of Good Will, it is also the dominant note in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, in Marcel Proust's The Remembrance of Things Past. Even the cloistered Henry James, at the outbreak of the War, wrote that to consider that the peaceful, pleasant pre-War years had been secretly building up to this horrible climax, was "too tragic for any words," stopped writing, died. For European intellectuals the War meant more than the end of amiable illusions under which they had lived...
...Senate resolution provided that on the outbreak of a war (which was left undefined) the President should at once proclaim its existence, forbid shipment of "arms, ammunition & implements of war" (also undefined) to each & every belligerent. To enforce that embargo U. S. munitioneers were to be licensed by a National Munitions Control Board, U. S. ships forbidden to carry munitions direct to belligerent ports, or to neutral ports for transshipment. At his discretion the President could also forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk. The Senate, in effect, was issuing a "must" order...
...German cause. Consequently he is unable to do otherwise than pour scorn on Ambassador Page in London; on Colonel House in his peregrinations amongst the struggling nations; on Leonard Wood who, he alleges, had sat at the feet of von Tripitz, and had devoted himeslf, long before the outbreak of the European War, to the upbuilding of an American militarism by the same modern and realistic methods wherewith the German had so brilliantly and disastrously succeeded, on Theodore Roosevelt--all Anglophiles, who never saw, or tried to see, more than one aspect of the War. We entered on the Allies...
...three miles outside Toulon, the arsenal workers cheered their regular leaders, who urged them to return to work. Said Prefect Maunier grimly: "If the workers recommence their rioting, it will be their misfortune. We are ready for them now: In future Toulon will be so strongly guarded that any outbreak will be quickly mastered...