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...translated into German in 1916 and was published at Munich. Copies of my book may have circulated among English speaking troops, but I never have heard it described as a work of propaganda. None of its many reviewers raised so unkind a point. Many loyal Americans and Englishmen among my readers praised my book as fair and truthful...
...been remarked of late by certain modern Tories that those who are today in charge of your national government are guilty of great experimentation-and they are right. The same suggestion was used when Englishmen, protesting in vain against intolerable conditions at home, founded new colonies in the American wilderness as an experiment, and when the Washingtons and Adamses and Bullochs conducted another great experiment...
...eighth Duke of Atholl. "richest man in Scotland." began to sell what he vowed were not lottery tickets. Proceeds of the sale, his agents announced, "shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Some 337,000 Englishmen had enough faith in the Duke of Atholl's dis cretion to pay ten shillings each for tickets. From the proceeds His Grace last month gave ?60,000 ($290,000) to British chari ties, chiefly hospitals. The remaining ?36,000 he distributed as 748 "gifts" to certain ticket holders...
During an audience in Vatican City, Pope Pius XI told 450 jobless Englishmen: ''If the Divine Providence caused you to be deprived of work. He did it for your own good. Being without work, you therefore will be all the more appreciative of work when it returns...
...policy which kept England friendly to France, hostile to Germany. In June 1914 he sought desperately to avert the World War, as long as possible delayed sending to Germany the ultimatum on Belgian neutrality which preceded England's declaration of war. For this he was blamed by Englishmen who felt that his hesitation encouraged Germany to strike first, by Germans who retorted that his policy of friendship emboldened France. Appointed temporary Ambassador to the U. S. in 1919. he spent four months in Washington without presenting his credentials to President Wilson, who was too ill to receive him. After...