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...phrase " or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution" is said to be the only provision in that document inserted in respect to one man. That man was Alexander Hamilton, who, born on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, came to New York at the age of 15, at 20 was a lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Washington, became Secretary of the Treasury in the first cabinet, wrote Washington's Farewell Address...
Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Republican Government, sent a note to the Free State Government offering to negotiate terms of peace. The document, which looks like a free translation of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Contrat Social, does not, however, make any allusion to a surrender of arms-a stipulation which, as the Free State Government has constantly emphasized, must precede any peace parley...
...Irish Times, Dublin journal, said: " We confess that after a very careful study of de Valera's proposals we are not in a position to enlighten ourselves." The general anti-Republican opinion throughout Ireland is that it is an ambiguous document and needs a good deal of elucidation by de Valera before it can be seriously considered...
Francesco Nitti sat in the historic halls of the Chateau de Versailles when he was Premier of Italy as the head of the Italian delegation during the whole of the first peace conference that followed the war. He had, therefore, some small part in framing that notorious document known as the Treaty of Versailles, and as a corollary, his book is based mainly upon first hand information. Signor...
...discovered by Professor Proquot in the private diary of the wife of Colonel le Comte Labedoyere (who was shot for having facilitated Napoleon's return from Elba). It is believed that this is the first time that this letter has ever been published, and so far the original document has not been discovered...