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...Jules Martin Cambon, 90, "dean of French diplomats," onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. (1897-1901), Spain (1901-07), Germany (1907-14), able brother of able Pierre Paul Cambon who as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's laid the foundations of the Anglo-French entente; in Vevey, Switzerland...
John Robinson, at 5, toured Europe with his parents, under his father's tutelage. From 12 to 15 he went to school at Vevey, Lausanne, Geneva, Zurich, Leipzig. At 16 he entered the University of Western Pennsylvania, but when his family moved to Pasadena he switched to Occidental College, Los Angeles, took his bachelor degree. He first met Una Call whose second husband he was later to become, while he was a post-graduate student at the University of Southern California...
...elected President of the Transvaal for the fourth and last time. In 1899 war with Great Britain was declared, but in 1900, too old, he was forced to retire from command. It was during his flight to Europe at this time that Kruger lost his fortune. He died at Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, July...
Professor Rossier has held his present position at the University of Lausanne since 1891. He received his education at Vevey and Lausanne, and at the Universities of Berlin and of Paris. He holds the honorary degree of Ph.D. from the University of Erlangen and is the author of numerous historical articles, published in the Lausanne Gazette...