Europe of To-day

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Sidgwick and Jackson, 1922 - 248 pages
 

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Page 13 - The Members of the League agree that if there should arise between them any dispute likely to lead to a rupture, they will submit the matter either to arbitration or...
Page 184 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 21 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 13 - a matter of concern to the whole League," and "the League is to take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations.
Page 218 - Doumergue, has been at pains to illustrate from the Lett folk songs the bitterness which prevails. It is no difficult task. One song — it may be cited here, as it is not among those given by Doumergue — runs: "Oh, poor German guest! What wouldst thou in our wretched hut? Thou canst not stay in the yard, For in the yard is wind or rain. Thou canst not stay within, For within is smoke. Listen! I will advise thee! Go to the bottom-most place of Hell, Where the Devil makes his fire. No rain there,...
Page 12 - ... avoid war is competitive armament, with its dreadful burdens and its constant temptation to the war it seeks to avoid. The first important covenant with reference to peace and war in the Constitution of the league is that looking to a reduction of armament by all nations. The Executive Council, consisting of representatives of the United States, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, and of four other nations to be selected by the body of delegates, is to consider how much the armaments of...
Page 15 - To endeavour to secure fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women and children...
Page 189 - Across the Andes in Chile, Spain's imperial outpost on the Pacific, Negroes likewise constituted an important minority in colonial and early republican times. Out of a total population of about half a million at the end of the eighteenth century, there were slightly fewer than thirty thousand Negroes and mulattoes.
Page 123 - ... first war of liberation. The suppressive measures of the Roman procurators in Judaea ultimately led to an open revolt against Rome in 66 CE In the early phases of the war, the Jews succeeded in driving the Romans out of most of the country, and it was not until 67 that the Roman Senate sent Vespasian to put down the rebellion. One of the first acts of the rebels was to mint coins to bear witness to their independence. One side of the silver coin bears a leaf with three pomegranates and the inscription...

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