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...Assembly, and Commissions day by day for over a month, and came away strongly convinced that the League, far from being in any sense dead, had definitely come to stay in the world, and had a spirit behind it, embodied by such leaders as Lord Robert Cecil and Dr. Nansen of Norway, that is not the kind of spirit that either men or adverse circumstances can kill. It was interesting to see the leaven working day by day on such Americans as had come to Geneva with unfriendly or skeptical feelings toward the League. After a few days, I heard...
Among the books of travel offered one will find. "Through Siberia", by Fridtjof Nansen which was published at $5.00 for $2.35, "Republican Rome", by H. L. Havell which is reduced from...
...successful in actual results achieved than either of the first two. Lord Robert Cecil's Disarmament scheme, or, more accurately, Reduction through a Pact of Mutual Guarantees, to be presented next year; a definite agreement by four great League members to get Austria on her feet; the sending of Nansen to Constantinople to care for the Greek refugees; and work on mandates and minorities were the main business...
This gave Mr. Baldwin the idea of filling caches with provisions and fuel and then setting them adrift on the ice. The Jeannette had followed the idea of floating with the ice-packs, but it had to be abandoned because of lack of coal; the Fram, under Nansen, had started from the wrong point. Mr. Baldwin advocates starting during the summer, so that by the time the ice-floes have been reached, winter will have set in and the cold will freeze the open sea around the ship, forcing it to float with the current. The Arctic regions would provide...
...Duke of Abruzzi is well known as a captain in the Italian navy. In 1900 he conducted an Arctic excursion, which penetrated nearer to the North Pole than had been reached before Peary's recent expedition. The party reached latitude 86 degrees, 33 minutes, north, thus beating Nansen's previous record. He is the author of "The Ascent of Mount St. Elias...