Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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March 31.--Dr. Glenn I. Jones '06, Major, Medical Corps, U. S. A., on "Camp Sanitation and Control, and Hospital Administration at Camp Devens...
...weeks with luck. Twenty-five flying hours are required; 50 landings; a 90-mile triangle, cross country, with two stops; several petits voyages' to neighboring hangars; an altitude test over 2000 meters for over an hour; it is the regular French 'brevet' course. We start in double control machines and after five or six flying hours are sent to solo work...
...They are not actually garrisoned by German armies, and they have not exercised any acts of war toward this country. Bulgaria maintains its own army and form of government; so far as known, neither Bulgarian nor Turkish troops are operating north of the Danube. Turkey is evidently under German control, and the armies are undoubtedly directed by German officers. Nevertheless, both Bulgaria and Turkey have respected American lives and interests; many of the leading Bulgarian statesmen and officers were educated at Roberts College, Constantinople, by American teachers, speak English, and feel that the United States is their friend. The Turks...
...meantime fighting Germany with our present military organizations, but we should immediately establish a system such as has been adopted in Switzerland and Austria. The United States has taken on a contract to reinstate Belgium and Poland, and recently, by message of President Wilson, to free Roumania from Austrian control. This is a vast undertaking, but we must fulfill it. Of course we can accomplish our purpose with our present military establishments, but we could do it much better and fully as quickly under the Swiss system. We could raise an army of 500,000 men in seven months...
What counted most, however, in the British success against Bagdad was Sir Stanley's ability to control the Arabs. Where others had embittered the natives he won their friendship. His personal influence has been the great factor in preventing the ever-incipient revolts...