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...Wellesley, who have been invited by the European Student Unions to send delegates to be their official guests for the summer. The delegates from Harvard will visit, among other places, Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg, and Bremen in Germany Gutenburg and Stockholm in Sweden, the Norwegian Fiords, Helsingfors in Finland Reval, Navra and Dorpat in Esthonia. Riga in Latvia. Kouno in Lithuaria Warsaw in Poland, Prague in Czechoslavakia, Geneva, and Paris...
...Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), lost to Sweden, by obstinate and unnecessary warring against the European Powers and Peter the Great of Russia, Baltic provinces stretching from Stettin to Reval, and in so doing reduced his country from the rank of a first-class power...
Mussolini had to cancel the engagement owing to pressing affairs of state. Among others present: Senator Tomaso Tittoni, President of the Senate; Admiral Thaon de Reval, Minister of Marine; Signer Rocco, Minister of Justice; Senator Schanzer, ex-Foreign Minister; Senator Contarini, Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry; Signer de Stefani, Minister of Finance; Commendatore Pace, Director General of the Treasury and one of Italy's leading bankers; U. S. Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher...
Secretary of State Hughes in a brief note to the Russian Government (transmitted via the U. S. consul at Reval, Esthonia) declared that the U. S. Government "is not proposing to barter away its principles" in negotiations for Russian recognition. He followed his note by publishing a set of instructions, captured in August, purporting to be from the Third Internationale to the Workers' Party of America...
...author goes farther afield and animadverts upon "Germany in Islam," British policy toward Turkey, Russia and Turkey. In particular does he berate the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1907 which paved the way for completion of the Triple Entente by King Edward VII with the Tsar of Russia at Reval in 1908. Although much that is said is entirely pertinent and substantially correct, the reasoning is seemingly paralogical. Mr. Price's vision is circumscribed by Islam, the needs and problems of the West find no place in his dogmas; in the sphere of foreign relations he is often irrationally pro-Turk...