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...captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig captured by the French on a pretext, her cargo of foodstuffs looted for starving Brest, the guillotine overshadowing all, Cobb loyally strove to secure his owner's just dues. Revolutionary officialdom caressed its neck with premonitory tenderness and did nothing but lose his papers. He forced his way to Robespierre and the sea-green monster granted full indemnities. "I remained in Paris about three weeks after...
...attached to the Curtiss Aeroplane Co. After a brief period at Akron, 0., he was sent to England for instruction in dirigibles under the British Admiralty. During 1918 he was stationed at the U. S. bases at Brest and Quipavas, France...
...went on to charge ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau with responsibility for the Brest-Litovsk Treaty (treaty of peace signed between Russia and Germany in 1918) and for "the death of several hundred thousands of soldiers." It was thought extremely unlikely that he could prove that Clemenceau actually did refuse military aid to the Bolsheviki, although Sadoul averred that documentary evidence existed...
...Second, the Brest-Litovsk Peace, which I regarded as a shameful betrayal of my country. Again I was wrong; and you were right. History has proved it; and I admit my fault...
...fight to swing its other leaders to his extreme radicalism, and of his leadership of the party through his long years of exile in Siberia, during the war, in Switzerland, and back to Russia, where he overthrew the provisional government of Kerensky and negotiated the now famous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, is all narrated in a vivid and convincing manner. The author gives Lenin's political career in full, quoting dozens of records and letters and telling scores of illuminating anecdotes, and at the same time makes a very comprehensive study of his character...