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...Substitute moral force and public opinion for the military and economic force originally implied in Article X and XVI...
...Substitute moral force and public opinion for the military and economic force originally implied in Articles X. and XVI...
...declared that he had not come to the U. S. to further "any personal ambitions" or any plans to restore the Monarchy. He had come to sell $1,000,000 of jewels -some of which once belonged to Tsar Peter the Great, Catherine II, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He also intended to retrieve his two Rembrandts, A Portrait of a Man, A Portrait of a Woman, worth about $1,000,000, which he pledged to Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia...
...Adolph Bernard Spreckels, wife of one of the sugar-gas-transit-charity dispensers of San Francisco, was Alma De Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating in marble the French pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition of 1915, a reproduction by Henri Guillaume, French architect, of the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paris, which was built in 1786 for the Prince Salm-Salm, from designs by Rousseau (not Jean Jacques). It is a small but charmingly...
...Both parties must agree to arbitrate before the League can act, except when Article XVI Is Invoked against a nation which resorts to war in defiance of the Covenant; then the remaining members can exert pressure against that nation...