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Combining many of the features of the English parliamentary system of government with the American presidential system, the new German frame of government undertakes an innovation which commands the attention of all who live under a republican government. Fear of a coup d'etat by the junker element, coupled with machinations of the present capitalist regime have thus far prevented the new Constitution of Germany from getting under way. The Ruhr crisis may furnish the required stimulus and with a president chosen by the vote of the whole German people a more definite course of action, for better...
...amorous book, "L'academie des Philosophes sur l'amour"; belonged to what court lady? No lady at all but to the staid Montesquieu, that man whose works Professor Munro always recommends but which no undergraduate has ever read. Perhaps that wary looking volume, which the card describes as "Etat des troupes et des etats-major des places"--once wholted the stern glance of Richelieu. It was Madame de Pompadour's and she, upon receiving it from His Majesty, probably placed it among her perfumed volumes never to be opened. There is another book which I know must have been opened...
...dress and manners shock the slumbering inhabitants into buzzing activity. All the men, young and old, flock around her, and inhale new life from her glowing personality and energetic example. Deftly she deals telling blows at the smug complacency of the Academy savants and as a final coup d'etat arranges the marriage of Marcella to Enrico...
...profession, was Mr. Carranza's right-hand man and most trusted adviser, until he chose to revolt against his chief, drive him from power and bring about his death. This fact is not very strange when we view it as a recurrence of General Huerta's famous coup d etat in 1913, when he overthrew the government of Madero and caused that President's subsequent overthrow...
Four more years of Democratic domination would mean four more years of Wilson. Like France under the reign of Louis XIV, America would be subjected to four more years of autocracy, for Governor Cox is "in perfect accord" with President Wilson,-"1'Etat c'est moi." This danger of absolute centralization of power in the head of our nation is a menace that must be recognized. Opposition to such a menace is no heresy, and as Wendell Phillips said "when your house is on fire, you do not give a moderate alarm." Business interests in the East are demanding release...