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...perhaps Nicholas II, another and a towering Nicholas always strode with head erect. Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the armies of all the Russias under command of his tall, big-boned second cousin, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I. The German pre-War penetration of Russia had been too deadly for any Russian commander to succeed. Too late the Grand Duke proved himself fit to rank with Ludendorff, Joffre, Mackensen, Foch, by his masterly "retreat without destruction" along the Narew-Vistula-San-Carpathians front (1915) to lines so well chosen that they held...
...Disraeli's glory under an unprecedented Liberal victory. "Nothing more than trouble and trial await me," said the Queen. He came back to power?not the old Gladstone of Christ Church, Oxford, but the new Gladstone; who, little as he could have dreamed it, was the forerunner of the pre-War Lloyd George, Liberal demagog...
...cheers. Time after time the deputies rose to their feet, stamped, exulted, wept. "Evviva Italia!" they bellowed, "Evviva Fascismo! E v v i v a ! Evviva!! Evviva MUSSOLINI!!!" High atop the Tribune, the Duce of Fascismo flayed the efforts of pan-German propagandists to hinder his Italianization of the pre-War Alto Adige, or South-Austrian Tyrol, which was ceded to Italy at the Peace Conference...
...novelist-historian H. G. Wells seemed to him like "a lucky stock-broker or traveling salesman," on the now famous occasion of their meeting at Countess Russell's flat (TIME, Jan. 25). Said Countess Russell, famed as the anonymous author of Elizabeth and her German Garden, known to pre-War German society as the Countess von Arnim, before her marriage Miss Mary Annette Beauchamp: "Bigelow is full of generous admiration. He gilds one with his warm rays. I am persuaded that his anecdote about Wells was meant as praise. . . . Americans sometimes express their admiration . . . differently from us, that...
...reprinted in part in this issue, is based on a Germany practical to the American student. His statements, combined with recent light thrown on the educational facilities at Nancy, broadens the entire field of foreign study. It should eventually result in putting the travelling fellowship on better than a pre-war basis and doing away entirely with that enormous prejudice in the mind of the graduate scholar in favor of the larger English universities...