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...world. M. Viviani not only accomplishes what he sets out to do, but actually damns the Germans from out of their own mouths. It has been fashionable to excuse the ex-Kaiser?as he excused himself in his Memoirs?for being the tool in the hands of ambitious soldiers, statesmen and industrial magnates. Despite this book from the perspicuous pen of M. Viviani, it is possible that the Old Man of Doom is not quite as bad as he is depicted. Be that as it may, there is no shadow of a single doubt that Wilhelm must shoulder a good...
...seeds of republicanism were sown in him when, once a year, the emperor and his suite of aristocrats distinguished soldiers and statesmen came to shoot over the Moravian estate. This company were in the habit of leaving their costly cloaks, which represented a fortune to the peasant, in his father's cottage. While the shoot was on the peasants used to gather round to admire the resplendent garments, but little Tommy Masaryk alone refused to look at them, saying: " I do not like to see those things." Later, explaining his feelings, he said: "I felt there was something radically wrong...
...leaguers will find in this book a well-ordered defence of their faith, backed up by a long line of quotations from presidents, statesmen and politicians. Anti-leaguers will consider it as the acme of unreasoned prejudice, or will not consider...
...Author. Louise Bryant is a beautiful girl still in her twenties, with large brown eyes, chestnut hair, and an impudent air of self-assurance that disarms diplomats, statesmen, detectives and editors. As the wife of the late John Reed, " Playboy of the Revolution," she has had more adventures in five years than ten ordinary women have in a lifetime. She first met the Communist leaders sketched in her book in 1917 during the Bolshevik coup d'etat which her husband described in what is still the most graphic and authentic picture of the revolution, as "Ten Days That Shook...
...though generally opposed to the present attitude of aloofness on the part of the United States, at least favored non-interference in the present crisis. Whatever view history may take of France's steps of reprisal, or whatever plans may now be simmering in the minds of our striving statesmen, the opinion expressed as coming from a representative group of American students, is both significant and impressive...