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...clock dinner, Dr. John Mez will speak on "German Reparations, French Debts, and American Obligations". Dr. Mez is a well known writer and lecturer on foreign affairs, and came into considerable prominence' as the Correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung. He was secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Mannheim from 1908 to 1910. When David Starr Jordan made a tour of Europe for the International Conciliation movement, he accompanied him as his secretary and co-lecturer. In 1913 he acted as organizer and interpreter for Norman Angell in his lecture tour in Germany in the interests of peace between that...
...Cologne and left it unscathed, in spite of the fact that it is the most logical place in the German empire for reprisals for the wanton attacks on London and Paris. Of all the large German cities Cologne is nearest to the British hangars; it is much nearer than Mannheim, which has repeatedly received the favors of the Allied aerial visitors; and it is the capital of Rhenish, Prussia. It is possible that Cologne has been spared hitherto at the request of the French, out of consideration for the staunchly Catholic character of its citizens and a sort of traditional...