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...Chicagoan vaporings assert that " the British syndicate, which comprises a dozen big banks and shipping companies, proposes to reconstruct the railroads in Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia, and possibly also Italy and Germany, and eventually Russia, in one vast private undertaking...
...damned nor Gopher Prairie yokels. They are merely what the average American boy between ten and sixteen would like to be, and they do the things which that boy would like to do. The wandering Patagonian musing on the ruins of Brooklyn Bridge in the year 3,000 could reconstruct every external of our present life and civilization from this series of books, as well as most of our ideals. He would think our normal life a little more exciting than it is, but that...
...Versailles Treaty; the cupidity of France in particular and the Allies in general; the inefficacy of the League of Nations, which he terms " nothing more than a servile instrument of the victors "; the futile endeavors of the endless chain of conferences that followed the armistice in their efforts to reconstruct a war-stricken Europe. Germany is represented as having been dispossessed of intrinsic possessions-territory that had belonged to her for hundreds of years. He says that her economic life has been deliberately ruined, and yet she is asked to pay huge sums for reparations which, he says...
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, it was ordained that the fortifications were to be destroyed; the Germans were further forbidden to reconstruct them...
...cases are not parallel, however, since there is a special provision of the treaty allowing France and Italy to reconstruct their capital ships in respects not permitted to other powers. But raising the angles of naval guns is nowhere specifically mentioned. The treaty is unfortunately vague both in specification and intent as regards the whole matter...