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...Parliament by locking its doors or rearranging its calendar whenever criticism is attempted, is on his way to Geneva to present his country's claims in the Lithuanian dispute. This dispute arose seven years ago when without good reason Polish forces marched into Lithuania and seized the capital, Vilna, and occupied a good portion of that country. Since then the inhabitants have been energetically kept in hand and revolutions have been continually fomented against the government which controls what is left of Lithuania...
Three years ago he belonged to the Anshe Emeth Congregation (Jewish Centre) in Cleveland. Its original members had immigrated in the 1880's from P'selvah, Polish village near Vilna. There most of them had been Yeshivah Buchers (religious students). They and most of their descendants in Cleveland are vigorously Orthodox...
...observations I made to you in 1914 on my return from Peking when I pointed out Germany's wrong policy in Eastern Asia. Furthermore it was I who, as representative of the Foreign Office on Germany's Eastern front, as early as the summer of 1917 at Vilna pointed out the necessity of a separate peace with Russia." The Kaiser cocked his head to one side and thought for a few minutes, then said: "Come with me into my study-you are to have my renunciation." And a moment later he became legally an ex-Kaiser...
Last week the Socialists began one of their periodical moves to eliminate the dread Pilsudski. But the hulking, burly, stern-eyed Marshal, without waiting to don his uniform, rushed from his summer home near Vilna to the capital, and roared: "I will not tolerate these tendencies of the Sejm to kick over the traces...
Into the Soviet Legation at Warsaw stamped one Josef Traikowicz of Vilna,* loudly demanding a visa for Russia...