Word: bellum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doran (2 vols., $12.50). These two books have digested all the red, white, pink and orange books that have been printed at various times by the late belligerent Powers, together with all the official histories, treaties and other such data, as well as the more important of the post-bellum avalanche of memoirs...
...golden ante-bellum chronicle of the G. O. P. there is one entry that will always be read with bitterness; the last minute defeat of Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. To those who watched President Wilson's actions with pale hostility the satisfaction always remained of believing that with Hughes as President matters would have been otherwise. There was no little rejoicing, therefore, when he was placed in the second highest office of the land by a new Republican administration. Great things were expected...
...Henry T. Allen, quondam Commander of the American Occupation Force: "The world has learned much more of the interdependence of States. It has learned that Europe cannot proceed properly along the road of moral and physical restoration without our participation in the great unsettled post-bellum measures...
Book I of Britain's history contains a short chapter on " an outline of British History to 1914"; the remainder is devoted to a study of the War and of conditions in the circum-bellum periods...
...armistice, when that 'unity of front', which was so marked during the War, no longer existed. We were especially disappointed in the disagreement of the United States Senate with the President over the treaty. We could not see why America should be unwilling to help solve the great post bellum problems. But there was in France no deep or widespread ill-feeling for the United States because we realized that the United States had entered the conflict with such disinterested motives and under such unusual conditions. Above all, there was such a deep feeling of gratitude for America's help...