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People in this country regard with anxiety what appears to them to be the determination of France to ruin Germany and to dominate the Continent without consideration of our reasonable interests and the future consequences to a European settlement; they feel apprehensive of the large military and aerial establishments maintained not only in eastern but also in western France; they are disturbed by the interest shown by your Government in the military organization of the new States in Central Europe, and finally, they question why all these activities should be financed by the French Government in disregard of the fact...
Obliged to earn her living, Selina goes out to teach school at an "incredibly Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...
...soon to propose an economic settlement of the most gigantic financial problem of the ages are Charles G. Dawes and the Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna...
...Society of Stevedores, Lightermen, Watermen, and Dockers (the Blue Union) whose membership is confined to London, rejected the settlement and voted to continue the strike for the immediate increase of the full 54? per diem...
...These final measures are the ransom France must pay for a policy in the Ruhr which has prevented any settlement of the reparations problem. They are a confession of failure. It was the Ruhr occupation which caused depreciation of the franc; if the franc improves it will not be thanks to the measures now being voted but to the work of the experts and consequent abandonment of the policy which France inaugurated 14 months...