Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...return of the American Labor Mission, which, representing the Federation of Labor, has visited Great Britain and France, marks the completion of an errand whose importance can hardly be overestimated. Both as to the character of the delegates and the manner in which they carried themselves, sometimes under great provocation, our principal organization of workingmen is to be congratulated. No trained diplomatists could have done better. No other Americans in any walk of life could have exhibited a loftier patriotism...
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, head of the French Military Mission to the United States and former active commander of the University's corps of French Military instructors, anticipates co-operation with Lieutenant Morize in commandng the maneuvers of the R. O. T. C. at Lancaster and Devens this summer. He declared this intention in a statement to the Military Office, expressing his satisfaction with the appearance and work of the regiment during his inspection of the troops in their drills and maneuvers at Fresh Pond. His statement was given out for publication yesterday by Headquarters...
...announcement of exceptional interest to all of us who are going to the R. O. T. C. summer camp. He declares in his own words that he "expects to work there with Lieutenant Morize." Colonel Azan is known to us all as the leader of the French Military Mission to the University last year, and as the author of a much-studied treatise on present war tactics, if not through the more personal contact of the lecture hall or drill field. And since he is so well known to us, we are fully aware of the fact that...
...graduate of the College, entered the Medical School in 1887 and was graduated in 1891. Since 1895 he has been connected with that institution first as an instructor and then as Assistant Professor. He spent a number of months last year as a member of a Red Cross Mission in Europe...
Yesterday afternoon Colonel Applin, who is a member of the British Military Mission to the United States, viewed the close-order work of the Regiment, after arriving too late to see the combat exercise. His chief criticism of the corps, whose work in the field exercise was praised by Lieutenant Morize, was that in the close-order tactics the men showed a woeful lack of that "punch" needed to carry field work through to a successful finish under adverse conditions in real warfare...