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...remembered that in 1899 when the U. S. decided to hold the Philippines, he shot up a U. S. outpost and started an insurrection which lasted six times as long as the Spanish War, cost more than half as much, required 60,000 U. S. troops to quell...
...stuff of romance is in this book;--hard riding Celts sweeping down upon Saxon shield walls; Drusus, prefect of the Damnonian March, leading forth the remnants of Roman civilization in Britain to quell the barbarian invaders; love, conspiracy, and battle in Lyonesse in the tumultuous days which followed the death of King Arthur...
First comes the desire to quell the animosities and race hatreds which, let loose by the war, might well continue to go far toward tearing down the civilization built up with travail and difficulty in the course of many centuries...
...second aim of the League, it seems to me, is projected as much by selfish as altruistic motives. A very strong League could completely prevent turbulence in the smaller powers but it would at the same time quell all individual enterprise in the smaller states and turn them into gaming grounds and milchcows for the major nations of the League...
...once anti-Fascist and anti-Italian demonstrations took place in reprisal at Belgrade, Agram, Laiback, Spalato and other Yugoslavian cities. Apparently the Government of Yugo-Slavia made almost frantic efforts to quell these disturbances, which included the burning of Italian flags, attacks on Italian consulates and some scattered plundering of Italian-owned shops. Foreign Minister Nintchitch of Yugo-Slavia promptly despatched a note of apology to the Italian Government, and was reviled as a "traitor" by many of his countrymen for so doing. The incident appeared closed with the alleged arrival at Belgrade of an Italian note in which...