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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Communications from the Director of the American University Union in Europe state that the London Branch of the Union is now well established. Since September the Union has had an office in the building of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 16 Pall Mall, East, S.W. 1, where about 200 men have registered. Now, through the courtesy of the same company, the entire first floor has been given over to the Union. A large reading and writing room plentifully supplied with American newspapers and periodicals, together with a Bureau of Information and Registration, is open daily, in charge of Director...
...principle of predatory militarism cannot be done away unless mankind has the intelligence, the magnanimity and the determination so to organize itself that justice shall take the place of violence, and that the predatory state shall be restrained, by force if need boy from a wanton resort to arms. No one nation can do this, nor can it be done if the United States stands aloof. The time has come to take part in a League of Nations to maintain an enduring peace here and elsewhere. We must finish the work we have begun until the principle for which...
...these landlord experiences. And all this time nothing is really done. The men endure, the work goes on, but it drags and every day the call from the other side is more insistent. This is something that no Y. M. C. A., no Knights of Columbus, can handle: neither State nor City can do it, only the Government can. For it means war measures, taking land, fixing prices, and holding them, preventing land-speculation and every other form of robbery and injustice which in the end comes back on labor; it means building houses, schools, hospitals, theatres and churches; giving...
...statement recently issued from headquarters in Washington, the United State Marine Corps offers an opportunity to a limited number of picked men to enrol in a training course for aviators. It is desired that the men be the best of available material, sound in body and between 20 and 30 years of age. Educational qualifications will be given special consideration, as it will be necessary for accepted applicants to pass a ten-weeks' course in a ground school before going to a flying field. During training they will rank with Naval Cadets and have the rating and pay of gunnery...
...Allied line has remained intact, retreating only before superior numbers and inflicting tremendous losses upon the enemy. If this war, even after the Russian collapse, is a war of attrition, the Allies have gained rather than lost. The importance the spring drive of 1918 depends on the present state of German manpower...