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...made a number of trips into the Arctic with famous explorers, including MacMillan, Stefansson, W. B. Cabot and Nikkelsson, and he has become one of the acknowledged authorities on northern exploration...
...translations of the dispatches of the European nations were used in my book, so that all thought or possibility of bias might be removed," said Professor Edmund von Mach '95, in discussing the withdrawal from circulation of his book, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. "The action of the Macmillan Publishing Company constitutes a breach of contract on their part, and a secret one. I had no warning of the suppression of the book until informed of it through the New York World...
...statements from the Entente nations which tend to show that the action of Great Britain in the closing days of July, 1914, was decidedly incriminating. "It is undoubtedly some foreign influence, financial or otherwise, which has caused the removal of my book from circulation and the attempts of the Macmillan Company to buy up all copies already sold. The plea of 'important inaccuracies' can hardly tell the whole story, for not only was the manuscript read by the company's readers but in addition, after publication, by Professor C. A. Beard, of Columbia. The company states that I refused...
...puts Great Britain in a bad light it is due to the absolute proof established in the chronological arrangement of the documents, a system which is the only fair way of obtaining an idea of the activities of the European chancelleries in the summer of 1914. The Macmillan Company certainly would not have accepted such a massive work if it had not been confident of the veracity of the author...
...only statement which the Boston office of the Macmillan Company would make yesterday was that the volume had been withdrawn from circulation because of "important inaccuracies...