Word: franco
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rautzau asserts: "the more deeply we penetrate into the spirit of this treaty, the more convinced we become of the impossibility of carrying it out." This statement makes us wonder in what spirit of liberality a victorious German government would have imposed peace terms. At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, France pleaded in vain. Two of her fairest provinces were torn from her and an indemnity imposed which was greater relatively speaking than the one demanded today. France in 1870-71 did not devastate vast areas of German territory nor mutilate German civilian population. No matter how great...
...Paris on Saturday evening. Robert Woods Bliss '00, Secretary of the American Embassy acted as chairman. Dean LeBaron R. Briggs '75, now Exchange Professor at the University of Paris, spoke on America's role in the war, and Dean Charles H. Haskins made an address on the development of Franco-American friendship. Colonel J. P. Azan, former instructor in Military Science and Tactics at the University also spoke on the later subject...
...past few days upon three more men from the University, Major Ralph R. Fitch '03, M.D., First Lieutenant A. W. Gardner '18, and G. H. Dorr '21. Major Fitch was made a knight of the Legion of Honor for distinguished service in connection with the establishment of the Franco-American auxiliary hospital at St. Valery-en-Caux...
Born at Paris in 1884 of Alsatian parents who had removed to French Territory after the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Captain Amann was educated at the University of Paris, first in the Lycee Montaign and later in the Lycee Louis le Grand. Leaving the University at the age of 16, he entered the leather business and became connected with the Paris branch of an American leather concern. He began his two years military service in 1905, in which he rose to the rank of sergeant. In 1910, he passed examinations for a commission and was made a reserve...
This war may not be named by a hyphenated title, as the Franco-Prussian, the Russo-Japanese, the Austro-Servian, because the nationalities which take part in it are too large, too many, and too intricate. It may not be named after one man, as the Napoleonic wars; for we know now that this is not the war of one man, but rather the war of a nation. It may not be named according to its duration, as the Seven Years, the Thirty Years, the Hundred Years Wars, because we have no accurate fore-shadowing of the time which will...