Word: journeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second trip, I landed in Chile and went by mail to Cochabamba, Bolivia. Then, with a mule train, I again crossed the Andes, the journey across the mountains taking seven days. On the other side, I got a number of Indian carriers and then we walked through the jungle for a couple of hundred miles until we came to one of the tributaries of the Amazon. Down this river we went for about a thousand miles, paddling through jungle in dugout canoes until we reached the Amazon down which we continued finally arriving once more at Buenos Aires, where...
...first journey (1913), he merely made friends, talked a little of a way for bringing about co-operation instead of competition among the great nations...
...second journey (May, 1914), he went abroad to induce Germany, England and France to agree to limitation of armaments. He called this trip "the great adventure." From Berlin he wrote President Wilson that the situation there was "extraordinary." "It is militarism run stark mad. . . . There is some day to be an awful cataclysm." As he returned home at the end of July, having made some progress with his plan, the cataclysm came...
...third journey (1915) he went to propose to the belligerents not only that they should end the War, but that in doing so arrangements should be made for permanent peace. Germany would not listen, France was wary, England thought the time was not opportune...
...fourth journey (1916), he went to propose to the belligerents should call a peace conference and either force peace or enter the War against the side which would refuse reasonable terms. He assumed that Germany would be the one to refuse, and he believed that it was in the interest of the U. S. to see militarism crushed and democracy set up in Germany. But the Allies did not trust Germany and feared that Wilson would not bring the U. S. into the War even if Germany refused equitable terms. House felt that it was necessary to have Allied consent...