Word: archangel
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...other European governments now enjoying diplomatic relations with the United States have not made such a good record on the payment of war debts either, so this point should present no unsolvable problem. Against this, too, are some Russian claims against the American army which helped the Allies at Archangel. Claims are adjustable through a joint commission, as happened when the Mexican government was recognized...
...would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok and the Maritime Provinces, of which it is the keypoint. Back in 1919, shortly after the war, Japan, who had joined the Allies in intervening against the Red government from Archangel, landed about three times its quota of troops and was on the point of annexing Siberia forthwith, and was only stopped by President Wilson, who had the whiphand in the naval bargaining going on among the Allies in Washington. The actions of the last year or so have made...
...irrelevantly: "If the U. S. Government is so craven as to rest its case on this testimony, which was given by more or less prejudiced bankers . . . then I am very much afraid that the people of this nation and of Detroit will begin to classify our Government as an Archangel Capone...
...years of thoughtful military service (he once taught philosophy at West Point) and his plan for the reorganization and improvement of national defense represented an estimated saving of $50,000,000 per year for U. S. taxpayers. "The Army has become so complicated." declared General Hagood. "that an archangel right out of Heaven could not operate it. ... The War Department has always collapsed at the outbreak of every war and the present organization will collapse at the outbreak of the next war because it is too topheavy, contains too many conflicting agencies, has too much divided responsibility...
...Paris Eugene Singer, her "Lohengrin," died last June (TIME, July 4). Still living is Pianist Walter Rumniel, "Archangel...