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...appointment of Professor Charles H. Haskins as a member of the Rhine Boundary Commission of the Peace Conference cannot but be hailed with satisfaction by those who have worked under him here. Professor Haskins is eminently fitted for his new work by years spent in an exhaustive study of the many European boundary disputes of mediaeval and modern times...
...Professor of Geology, Emeritus, will give explanations of the present situations of the battle fronts to all who wish to attend. These talks are given before the war maps on the main stair case of Widener. The maps show in detail all territory from the Belgian coast to the Rhine, and give the present fighting lines, the lines of the farthest advance of the Germans in 1914, and the lines in March and July of the present year...
...shelling the churches on Good Friday. It stoops to no further mockery of argument or negotiation, yet says as definitely as human voice ever spoke "In the name of God and humanity, and of a just and permanent peace to a free world, NO TREATIES MADE THIS SIDE THE RHINE." --The Outlook...
Standish.--1, The Quilting Party. 2, Football Marches. 3, When We Wind Up the Watch on the Rhine...
There is another aspect which is closely connected with Germany's imperial policy and which perhaps furnishes an answer to such an unprecedented demand. It is Germany's aim to expand. Dutch occupation of the rich territory at the mouth of the Rhine has long been a bitter obstacle to German expansion and trade. A triumphant Germany seems, therefore, to turn upon another victim. The gain of transporting war supplies through Holland is practically negligible. In demanding what she has, Germany has merely forced Dutch neutrality to a point where it must...