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...most interesting chapter deals with the peace settlement at Versailles in which he says, "The most that statesmen could do was to guide and slightly to modify, the influence of forces which were beyond their control--and by which they were inevitably influenced." This quite justly exonerates the men who were responsible for the peace terms from some of the unfair censure which they have received, but it brings forth at the same time a most ominous fact. Men no longer control their destinies, instead they are at the mercy of events. Social, political, and economic forces are so complex...
...Allahabad. In these capacities he gained an influential position as a publicist due to his grasp of public affairs and outstanding oratorical abilities. In 1920 he was one of the three delegates elected by the people of India to present the Indian case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement. Upon the conclusion of his mission he remained in Europe to follow the developments of the international situation, attending the Washington Conference for Limitations of Armaments in 1921 as press representative for India...
...finished the dam will rise 727 ft. between the canyon walls, will back the river up into a reservoir 115 miles long, two miles wide. The U. S. already owns as part of the undistributed Public Domain the land in Nevada and Arizona on which the dam will rest.* Settlement will have to be made later for upstream private property to be inundated by the new lake. Most interesting to engineers in the construction will be an experiment to hasten the cooling process of concrete by means of a special ammonia refrigerator plant from which ice water will be piped...
...shows Cortez to have been not only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well how to direct the fruits of his conquest along lines of permanence by fostering settlement and agriculture. The figure of Dona Marina, the beautiful Indian interpretress who shared all the toils of his arduous campaigns, gives an added note of romance. Yet notwithstanding the epic quality of Mr. Robinson's recent biography, Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" is still the most dramatic and astounding account...
...expedition to the northern Labrador coast. Starting from Boston on Tuesday, June 30, if conditions of the ice-packs in Northern Harbors are favorable, his erstwhile fishing-schooner, which will be called the "Ramah", will cruise up to Cape Chidley, which is north of the remotest mission settlement...