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...schoolboy knows, discovered by Columbus in 1494 on his second voyage to the Americas. They were purchased by the U. S. in 1917 from Denmark for $25,000,000. They are not big (132 square miles); the harbor of St. Thomas looks like a baby Golden Gate. In this realm live several hundred Americans, Danes and Spaniards, 20,000 Negroes. They plant sugar, have tropic fun. A few of them are disgruntled because the U. S. has not yet granted them citizenship. The population has been steadily decreasing, because of Negro migrations to Haiti, Cuba, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo...
Though modest Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is content to be styled a Queen, her realm is an Empire in all but name - an Empire three times larger in area and almost as populous as the Empire of Japan...
...Realm of New Jersey
Astute diplomats have long recognized the wisdom of granting enemies, within discretion, a share of the realm. Thus was built the Roman Empire of old. That it finally fell by its inclusions was only because it became effete during and not because of the process. Last week a most significant ceremony occurred in Rome, at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran (Roman Catholic). Protestant President Doumergue of France was inducted (by proxy) as Canon.* The ceremony, attended by the whole Cathedral chapter, was a revival, after 100 years, of a distinction once granted the kings of France. The delicate matter...
...Nathan's expose of the national prejudices. It is strange, however, that shades of the Boston tea party should create eternal disturbance which even alliance in a World War should not destroy. The situation is another valid reason for the entire exclusion of sentiment and vague memories from the realm of statesmanship; and that is the greatest problem for any International court...