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...story of the separation of these two volumes forms a dramatic chapter in the history of Harvard during the Revolutionary War. For at Harvard, the general excitement caused by the outbreak of the war was heightened by the long absence of John Hancock, treasurer of the College from 1778 to 1777, who, though so immersed in public affairs that he was unable to pay or receive money on behalf of the College, refused to resign...
...Reichstag fire was set by Communists, police promptly charged. Over a nationwide radio hookup the Minister of Interior for Prussia, blustering Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, cried: "The Reichstag fire was to have been the signal for the outbreak of open civil war! . . . The Communists had in readiness 'terror squads' of 200 each. . . . These were to commit their dastardly acts disguised as units of our own Nazi Storm Troops and the Stahlhelm. . . . The women and children of high Government officials were to have been kidnapped as hostages and used in the civil war as 'living shields...
Each mongrel generation has grown wilder and more cunning. Hated for their destruction of game, they are also feared because an outbreak of rabies among them might ravage the whole district. As their next move, New Jersey sportsmen last week planned to set steel wolf traps through the Ramapos...
...presence of an incipient outbreak of economic war with the weapons of depreciated currencies, artificial barriers to trade by quotas, reciprocal trade agreements, discriminations, nationalistic campaigns to consume homemade goods and a score of tactics . . . each of which adds to world confusion and dangers. . . . We find some 44 countries definitely off the gold standard. . . . The United States has held stanchly to the gold standard. . . . We have thereby maintained one Gibraltar of stability in the world and contributed to check the movement to chaos. . . . We will be forced to defensive action to protect ourselves unless this mad race is stopped...
...sure to accept. Those grounds are that there is no historical basis for the exaltation of the Allied cause on the assumption that Germany was alone responsible for the War. It does not matter whether or not Germany can historically be accused for sole guilt for the actual outbreak of the War. Nothing can exonerate Germany from responsibility and any thought of whitewashing the Imperial government would be ludicrous. There is no question that the philosophy of the Prussian military caste was a barbarous one, and that it was expressed in a particularly brutal and uncompromising form. But the point...