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...Cairo flew General Sir Bernard Paget, British commander in chief in the Middle East, who had several hundred thousand men on call. Paget ordered Roget to "cease fire." The Frenchman said that he would not take orders from a Britisher. Paget suggested that Roget call his French superior, General Humbolt, at Beirut. Roget pointed out that the British had cut his telephone line. Paget offered him the use of the British line. Furious, Roget declined...
...Ludwig is unjustified in his conclusion that only a continuation of the liberalism of the revolution could have produced a tremendous outburst of the Germany spirit. Ironically enough, he says that only a period of political unity and national enthusiasm could have brought forth another Goethe or a Humbolt. At that time Germany was split into sections and subjected to the armies of Napoleon. Like the post-war Germany of today it was weary of strife and lacked any unifying ideal to inspire the national consciousness. This was, nevertheless, the Germany of Goethe and Schiller,--the great creative and prolific...
...Southern college, and finally held the chair of political science in Columbia College till his death in '72. Lieber was widely known as a writer on economics and International Law, but readers will now find most interest in his acquaintance with prominent men here and abroad-with Niebuhr, Humbolt, the present Emperor of Germany, and Jerome Bonaparte; with Story, Webster, Clay, Sumner, Agassiz and Longfellow. Among the many valuable letters chosen by Mr. Perry, one in particular gives Lieber's personal recollections of the battle of Waterloo, and others present a striking picture of the state of feelings...