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...government of the Saar basin by a commission of the League of Nations is a very interesting experiment in international administration," said Professor Charles H. Haskins in a recent lecture on the Rhine and the Saar questions as they appeared at the Peace Conference. "Granted the prompt organization of a league such as the treaty contemplates, this experiment in commission government has a fair chance of success, and by its success or failure the league will be in large measure judged in western Europe...
...outset, Professor Haskins briefly reviewed the position of France with her lost provinces restored. By the recovery of Alsace she found herself once more on the Rhine and she demanded a corresponding voice in Rhenish affairs. French imperialism, French reparation, French self-defense were all in some degree involved in these problems of the Rhine and the intervening lands...
...Rhine and the Sarr," January...
...Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code framed by Walter Camp, Parke H. Davis, and their associates of the Rules Committee was respected in spirit and letter by the American soldiers. They always heeded the injunction that...
...principle of self determination. The Allies can not be accused of wanton aggression; the distribution of territory is well-balanced, no country receiving any possession to which it has not a right. In the Sarre Valley question, it is interesting to remember that Dean Haskins, as head of the Rhine Boundary Commission, played a prominent part. The question has at last been settled in a way to repair the wrongs which French coal fields suffered at the hands of Germany. In solving another bone of contention by the Danzig outlet, we understand Professor Lord offered able suggestions. It is highly...