Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...demands that a machinery for enforcing it be supplied. An international police force, perhaps, similar to the gendarmerie, should be created. Unless such a force is provided, small states will be able to defy the League and the larger nations will be powerless to prevent strife and war. I believe, however, that the League will be of great help in establishing permanent peace...
...could best aid reconstruction in Europe, Professor Levy-Bruhl replied: "First of all, you should become better informed on European problems and history. Americans have a fair knowledge of the British Empire, but of France and Germany they know little. France needs economic and financial help very badly. The war was a terrible blow to us; our most productive provinces were pillaged, and the debt we incurred is a heavy burden to carry...
Engaged in War Work...
...Levy-Bruhl is conducting two courses at present in the University: Philosophy B and Philosophy 16. He is one of the best known of contemporary philosophers, and is the author of a number of authoritative philosophical books. During the war Dr. Levy-Bruhl served under the French Minister of Munitions, and later during the Peace Conference was with the Foreign Office...
...Second course will be lectures (in English) on France and the War: Lessons and Problems, by Abbe Ernest Dunnet, Professeur au College Stanislas, Paris, Agrege de l'Universite. 1. France revealed to herself and to the World by the War. 2. Restoration of French Unity by the War. 3. Effects of the War on the Moral Ideas of the French. 4. Craving for intellectual and Moral Superiority Created by the War. Distinguished Men Revealed by the War. 5. A Clearer View of Realities. 6. Conflicting Currents of Thought. 7. Probability of Political Modifications. 8. America and France in the Future...