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...desperate decision, but rejection is impossible. "Those who hate self-deception and are not politically ignorant will admit that America must make the final decision on all questions involved in the Dawes report. America is neither generously inclined toward nor well-informed concerning Germany. We Germans would certainly prefer a better arbiter-but there is none. "America is the only power which can lend backbone to the British policy, which inclines just now toward giving Germany a breathing spell. This English policy succeeded in winning America, against her often declared intention not to mix in European politics, to permit General...
...Japanese. We are now humiliated by your country in the eyes of the world without any justification?if there is any justification it applies for your country only ?I prefer death rather than to feel resentment...
...nine and the management is anxious to secure the best talent possible. It was announced yesterday that candidates might report this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers' Field. Whether practice would be secret, or whether admission would be charged, were facts about which the scholars seemed to prefer not to make any statement...
...mettle. If Mr. Bushnell Cheney, who is playing the general part of Moses to the troupe, had not already demonstrated the practicability of his idea in a former tour, he might almost be considered one of those who have no quaims about rushing in where others prefer to let someone else be the first pioneers...
...London, was sold a famed letter from the quill of Napoleon, addressed to Admiral Lord Keith on July 31, 1815 : "I am in no way a prisoner of war; I am the guest of England. I prefer to die rather than to go to St. Helena or be imprisoned in a fortress. I wish to live in the English country, under British law and protected...