Word: franco-prussian
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...Crocker gallery is the property of the City of Sacramento, having been given in 1885 by the widow of Judge E. B. Crocker, retired railway attorney and former California Supreme Court Justice. Mr. Crocker gathered the collection after the Franco-Prussian war and the stolen canvas was one among several world famous pictures for which Sacramento is noted. So great is the value of the Entombment that it will be difficult to market. The world will probably not see it again for many years...
Millions of pilgrims are expected to visit the Eternal City. The Pope is known to be considering the resumption of the Vatican Council, which was hastily prorogued to an indefinite date, owing to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. A circular letter is being sent to all bishops, asking their opinion as to the advisability of resuming the council. The Pope has refused to take any part in the World Conference on Faith and Order which is an All-Protestant Council to be held in Washington...
...reparation from Germany or become bankrupt. Germany not only must pay, but can pay. A comparison of reparations after the war of 1870 with those after the Great War shows that although the total sum required from Germany is much greater than that paid by France after the Franco-Prussian war, the yearly payments made by France were larger than those made by Germany since the treaty of Versailles was signed. In this comparison we must also consider the fact that France had been invaded in the war of 1870, while German territory was untouched in the Great...
...main arguments in favor of France's present policy were briefly: Germany to the present time has made no honest effort to pay the reparations justly demanded, and has pursued a policy of passive resistance; that in 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War, France was forced to pay the entire amount of the indemnity demanded; finally, France is in urgent need of money and material to enable her to reconstruct what Germany has destroyed, and that by pursuing her policy of the occupation of the Ruhr Valley, France will either secure in material the equivalent of the reparations...
...contents of the secret treaties and diplomatic agreements between Germany, Austria and Italy in the years following the Franco-Prussian War, and the real status of the famous Triple Alliance between those nations, knowledge of which has hitherto been confined to a few high European officials, will be completely revealed in the series of texts now being prepared for publication at the Harvard University Press. The first volume, including "Texts of the Treaties and Agreements from 1879 to 1913," will be placed on sale at the end of this week...