Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...behalf of the Red Cross, spoke at a meeting in Brattle Hall last evening. He took up successively the work which his organization is doing in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and France. He told of the great warehouse which has been established in Switzerland to supply adequately all the American prisoners in Germany with food and clothing...
Communications from the Director of the American University Union in Europe state that the London Branch of the Union is now well established. Since September the Union has had an office in the building of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 16 Pall Mall, East, S.W. 1, where about 200 men have registered. Now, through the courtesy of the same company, the entire first floor has been given over to the Union. A large reading and writing room plentifully supplied with American newspapers and periodicals, together with a Bureau of Information and Registration, is open daily, in charge of Director...
Special arrangements have been made with the St. James' Palace Hotel, Bury street, for the accommodation of all American university men. Here also a large writing and reading room and lounge on the ground floor is reserved for the exclusive use of members of the Union, and the restaurant is open at special rates to members of the Union whether or not they occupy rooms...
Though the American people have subscribed most generously to the Liberty Loan they cannot sit back and say they have done enough. The demands of the war have only begun to be felt here. When we look at the civilians of France and England we can see that their gifts of time, energy and money have been increasing steadily in spite of the pressure of war. We must not be behind them...
...facilities of the cantonment. The Chief of Staff and commandant of the O. T. C. at Camp Devens have assisted in furthering the plans for the corps' summer work by assuring the Military Office that they will supply officers of the French and British Military Missions, as well as American officers, to lecture before the corps and give demonstrations. It is possible that the regiment may march from its barracks in the Freshman dormitories to the camp site, where it is expected that the men will be quartered in wall tents...