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...sudden change of public sentiment? It does not appear to have any intimate connection with politics, although the anti-suffragists make much or the fact that they are defeated in good company, for the movement has been steadily gaining ground both in England and the United States since the out-break of the war. Rather, it must be considered as a direct result of the war, an appreciation, on the part of the electorate, of the ability and patriotism that the women have shown since April last. In all matters of war relief and charity, they have shown themselves able...
During the period preceding the war, Captain Amann spent much time in the United States and South America engaged in carrying on his business, and was living in Buenos Ayres at the out-break of war in 1914. He returned to France and joined his regiment, the 115th Infantry, which was sent to the Champagne front. He was at once promoted to a 1st lieutenantcy and in June 1915 was appointed a temporary captain...
Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the out-break of the war and immediately enrolled in the South Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and was finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's ability and courage won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain...
...will be filed throughout the war a set of American Notes, published by the American colony in Munich during the early days of the warand complete filed of the leading Swiss papers for the same period, have been given by alumni who were abroad at the time of the out-break of hostilities. The Library also has a collection of Spanish books on the war which, for the most part, are pro-German. In addition, a prominent German American has given a large number of books designed to present the German side...
Madame Vandervelde was born in England, educated in Germany and France and, up to the out-break of the war, she was a resident of Brussels and had many varied experiences among her native people...