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...seven big battleships made white scratches on the still dark surface of Manila Bay in the Philippines. A few rockets and cannon broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood...
...Filled with conviction that there is a necessity for France and England to be united, I repeat for my own part the prayer of the British cities, 'May the concord founded between our two great nations by common sacrifice and cemented by the blood of our best and bravest children be perpetuated as long as the world shall endure...
...question was, wrote Editor de Jouvenel, whether the Great Powers are sincere in their ostensible trust in the League as an agency of international concord or whether they prefer to deal darkly with one another behind the League's back. Such dealing, de clared M. de Jouvenel, has been continuously the policy of Aristide Briand, although that statesman, it is well known, praises the League with high emotional fervor in his public speeches (TIME, Sept...
...born in California in 1863. His father, and his father's 17 million dollars, entrusted him to the careful English exclusiveness of St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H., and then to Harvard. He was ousted from Harvard, did not graduate; but he there learned much not in the curriculum. Pouring over the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, he learned much that Joseph Pulitzer knew and suspected things Joseph Pulitzer had never thought of. Working as business manager and later as managing editor of the Harvard Lampoon, Mr. Hearst first sniffed the?to so many?drug...
...that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils...