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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Committee has been formed in Paris, under the name of Comite Nationale d'Etudes and composed of M. Hovelaque (Inspector of Public Instruction), M. de Lapradelle (Professor of Law), M. Lichtenberger (Professor of German Language and Literature, former French Exchange Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly...
...opening of a large breach in the Anglo-French front might conceivably mean disaster. Having once pierced through, the outflanking and rolling up of their lines might result in the destruction of all opposition. France would be at the invaders' feet. Before long, Paris and all remaining French territory would be in the hands of German forces. The war would be over. The Allies, though still supreme on the sea, would be unable to attack the enemy at any point, and so, baffled, must acknowledge defeat. Temporary as this would be, for the world can never see a victorious Germany...
...America" parade will be the second occasion upon which which the University R. O. T. C. has appeared in a ceremony in Boston. The first time was the escort of the French Military Mission from the South Station to the Harvard Club, which occurred on April 28, 1917, almost one year...
Both officers are travelling on a lecture tour as special representatives of the French Government. They have just arrived in Boston from Canada, and will this evening make their first public appearance in any large city of this country. Captain Duthoit, before entering the service of his country, was a professor in the Catholic University of Lille, which is in the district now occupied by the Germans...
After the speeches tonight a reception will be given the officers in Grays 17 to which members of the Cercle and members of the Faculty in the French Department are invited. The conference in Emerson D, however, is open to all members of the University. It was through the efforts of Professor L. J. Mercier that the presence of the officers here tonight was secured...