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This lady, Marie Alorge, cruelly exiled from France under a lettre de cachet is known as La Dame de Sainte Hermino, and her fortunes are wrapped up with those of the new French settlement of New Orleans, its doughty founders and defenders, and its kindly peasant people. She endures perils of loneliness, perils of storm, perils of Indians, and comedy and tragedy mingle in her love story...
...separate conventions the Allied demands were whittled down. These included: settlement of the Ottoman debt by apportionment among ex-Ottoman territories; regulation of concessions; settlement of the Mosul (Oil) Question; conclusion of separate judicial treaties granting right of complaint to foreign legal advisers in place of capitulations. The U. S. and Turkey signed a parallel, but separate, treaty of amity and commerce...
...effect, the Lausanne Settlement turned Europe bag and baggage out of Turkey instead of turning Turkey bag and baggage out of Europe. It signified the complete shipwreck of Lloyd George's five years' nursing of Greek ambitions. Flouting the conservative policy of seven decades, it exposed Turkey to intrigue and direct military pressure from Britain's perennial foe, Russia. It excluded France, Italy and Great Britain from exploitation of the spoils of war. It practically abandoned all pretence on the part of the Great Powers to protect the Christians in Turkey, cardinal point of Gladstone...
Nikolai Krestinsky, Soviet plenipotentiary, met Langa Rascanul, head of a Rumanian diplomatic mission, at Vienna, to discuss a general Russo-Rumanian settlement. The parley almost immediately struck the Bessarabian question and went on the rocks shortly after...
...Ford has not replied to Col. Leland's personal, attack upon him, and it is generally supposed that the veteran automobile maker will take his grievance to the courts, to force at settlement with the Fords...