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...Baron di San Severino has, according to his preface, selected, translated! and edited the speeches of Benito Mussolini, as delivered between November, 1914, and August, 1923. The impression that the reader will receive is of a man whose salient characteristics are domination, simplicity, directness, courage. The speeches, per se, are not of general interest, but for anyone interested! in Mussolini, they are decidedly worth reading. Baron di San Severino has done an excellent piece of work, but he has not done it impartially...
...presence of Louis XVI of France and of Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin, foremost scientist of the day, was asked what use the balloon was, he cautiously countered: "Of what use is a newborn infant?" And the balloon has indeed been the precursor of many mighty dirigibles. Per se its utility is small. Kite balloons, a variant ol the spherical balloons used for sporting purposes, are useful as observation posts for Army and Navy operations alike, and spherical balloons may serve to form a barrage by a network of suspension wires to intercept attacking planes. But on the whole...
...upon him, he will accede to it rather than admit even to himself that he cannot afford it. Then, too, he has a German wife who does not know that money is not plentiful, and an only and expensive son. Things are in this state when Holmengraa arrives at Se-gelfoss, wearing a fur coat and a heavy gold chain. Holmengraa is known as "King Tobias." He has been to Mexico, and has made money. But now he wishes to live in the Nordland where he was born. All that he asks of the Lieutenant is some land...
Secretary of War Weeks and Secretary of the Navy Denby have been casting around for a successful means of defending the Panama Canal. 11 the naval manoeuvres this year (se Page 5), as in the manoeuvres a year ago, the difficulties of defending the Canal have been apparent. The secretaries believe that the defenses must be improved. But a gentleman who arrived from France last week proposed a plan which would take out by the root many difficulties of Canal defense. Lieutenant Colonel Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, engineer, editor, diplomat soldier of fortune, veteran of the World War, in which...
...Senate should have little to worry over. The referendum per se should receive as fair a trial of its value in a large University as under any other conceivable conditions. Therefore when the Peace Plan referendum at Harvard has proved so little, one may be sure that the Nation-wide referendum on the same subject will not be any more conclusive...