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...want at this point to express sincere thanks to the Austrian Chancellor for his deep understanding and warmhearted readiness wherewith he accepted my invitation and endeavored with me to find a way that is quite as much in the interests of the two countries as it is in the interests of the entire German people whose sons we all are no matter where our cradles stood. I believe we thereby made a contribution to European peace." (See p. 19.) "Self-Determination." Touchiest subject that Adolf Hitler raised was his pronouncement on the favorite Nazi doctrine...
...always happens after a big defeat, the fall of Bilbao caused the routed Basque and Asturian forces to be given a unified command, under General Gamir Uribarri last week. He thus had some 110,000 men wherewith to defend Santander, a larger force than that of advancing Rightist General Jose Fidel Davila, but markedly inferior in munitions and warcraft. Leftist propaganda declared: "Basque prisoners are marched through the streets of Bilbao taunted and in degradation." Rightist propaganda announced: "In Santander 15,000 rioters have seized Government buildings and proclaimed a Communist Libertarian Republic...
...anchor-weighing contraption ($500) wherewith, by stepping on a pedal, a yachtsman starts a motor to raise his anchor...
...royal virtuoso, Emperor Power of Trinity revealed on another day last week that his fighting coffers are stuffed with every sort of treasure wherewith to buy munitions, including some 10,000,000 gold lire ($2,000,000) paid by Italians after their 1896 defeat at Adowa and hoarded ever since by Ethiopians. That there is plenty of money at the Emperor's command appeared from the fact that huge quantities of munitions have been unloaded and spread over several acres at Djibouti in French Somaliland, terminal of the one & only railway to Addis Ababa. By order of French Premier...
...Colonel House in his peregrinations amongst the struggling nations; on Leonard Wood who, he alleges, had sat at the feet of von Tripitz, and had devoted himeslf, long before the outbreak of the European War, to the upbuilding of an American militarism by the same modern and realistic methods wherewith the German had so brilliantly and disastrously succeeded, on Theodore Roosevelt--all Anglophiles, who never saw, or tried to see, more than one aspect of the War. We entered on the Allies side, because, Mr. Millis concludes, we never heard more than one side represented, from the first few weeks...