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Archaeologist J. Reid Moir published further results of his per sistent excavations in limestone quarries near Ipswich, East Anglia. Flint tools found in a pre-Pliocene layer indicated that the history of man stretches much further back than is supposed. The site was northwards of the site where the Piltdown Man was discovered, on the shore of a warm North Sea which then had no outlet channel between France and England...
...incurring a hatred which generations of painstaking diplomacy may not obliterate. Our refusal to recognize Huerta, our brazen attempt to regulate) Mexican politics, our bluster at Tampico and Vera Cruz and our subsequent undignified withdrawal, --these are acts which defy interpretation in terms of any national and con- sistent policy. We befriended Villa, we countenanced Carranza, and we failed utterly to protect American rights and American lives. After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa." Today our troops are returning with purpose unaccomplished, leaving their dead and their country's honor on the sands...