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President Friedrich Ebert of Germany received representatives of the Allen Relief Committee, the Quaker Relief Mission and the U. S. Press, and asked them to express Germany's gratitude to the American people for their succor of starving German children...
Unitarians met at Boston for their 99th annual convention. "I want to testify here and now," said Dr. Charles W. Eliot, "that this is the most hopeful time I have ever seen." The Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Eliot, son of Charles, was again elected President. An effort to succor Transylvanians in the U. S. met with hearty response. The Unitarian movement was founded in Transylvania in 1568 by Francis David...
...danger. But they predict failure for Amundsen's plan of airplane flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Point Barrow, Alaska. "Many flights will be necessary to lay in supplies at the Pole. One forced landing on barren and broken ice fields may mean death, without the faintest hope of succor for the lightly provisioned aviators...
Premier Venizelos received congratulations upon his return to power, from his good friend and partner in Balkan scheming, Premier Pashitch of Yugo-Slavia. Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey also proffered his felicitations. Henry Morgenthau, head of the International Loan Commission for the Succor of Greek Refugees, an ex-U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, likewise congratulated M. Venizelos. Speaking at a dinner in Athens, Mr. Morgenthau recalled his efforts to deter the Turks from "massacring Christians;" he deplored the fact that Turkey had been put in the position to win the Anatolian War (1921-22) by the transfer of French...
Henry Morgenthau, head of the International Loan Commission for the Succor of Greek Refugees: "In Athens, at an entertainment of the American Near East Relief, a boys' band played The Star Spangled Banner. Depatches stated that I was overcome by emotion, that tears rolled down my cheeks...