Bonsal, Stephen
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Mermeix, the venerable journalist, came in today and gave us some interesting details as to certain aspects of the pending armistice negotiations hitherto unknown to us. In their discussion on October 25, he says, Petain insisted, as did Foch, upon the complete disarmament of all German troops in France with the exception of what he called carrying arms (I suppose small arms are meant). He further demanded a broad strip of German territory as a protection against a renewal of invasion and as a pledge for…- 113.7 K • Completed
- My new Colonel tiptoed into Paris so softly yesterday morning that I only reported to him today at the house that had been arranged for his reception in the Rue de L’Université. He immediately installed me in his official family on the same familiar footing that I had enjoyed in Berlin three years before: “The President has given me no instructions; he said I would know what he wanted me to do and then told me to shove off. For the next few days we shall be very busy debating the terms of the…
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- Today the sergeant brought me a message that came over the telephone from headquarters. It was not in the romantic Choctaw that was supposed to baffle the wily Germans, always suspected of listening in, but in plain English. It directed me to present myself to General Edwards as soon as possible. It was about ten-thirty and I had on my desk several rather important letters to be translated, and then —well, I was nearly starving. Our mess arrangements were beneath contempt. If I tarried over my work I…
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- I am writing this by the feeble light of a smelly bicycle lamp in a damp cellar under a ruined house somewhere near the front. By pulling a brick from my barricaded window, and with the aid of a little imagination, anyone can see the voie sacrée, the great Chaussée, the life line of Verdun which the Crown Prince and all his armies have failed to cut. My sergeant tells me the place is called Rottentout and he asserts that it is “rotten all through.” I have been here for four days and I am inclined to…
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- Abdul Hamid II. The “Red Sultan” and the last to reign in Turkey. He was deposed by the revolutionary movement that started in Macedonia. Aseff. The mysterious figure who during the Russian Revolution sold his services both to the government and to the revolutionists, and who in the end cheated both the gallows and the assassin by dying in his bed. Bell, Gertrude. The charming Englishwoman who had lived long in the Middle East; called the Arabs “my people,” and was regarded by them as their…
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- The United States of America The Honorable Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States. The Honorable Robert Lansing, Secretary of State. The Honorable Edward M. House. The Honorable Henry White, formerly Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at Rome and Paris. General Tasker H. Bliss, Military Representative of the United States on the Supreme War Council. The United Kingdom of Great Britain The Right Honorable David Lloyd George, M.P., First Lord of the…
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- I give here in full the Points, the Principles, the Particulars, and the Ends with which President Wilson proclaimed his crusade and which most naturally loomed large on the horizon of the Oppressed Nationalities, who, coming to Paris in great numbers, hailed our President as their Messiah. The Points V. A free, open, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, the interests of the populations being equally considered with the equitable claims of the governments. IX. Readjustment…
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- Within an hour after reaching the old Breton port, where only a few months before we had arrived with such high hopes, it was brought home to me that we had not made the world safe for democracy, at least not in Brest. The stevedores’ strike had developed into a long succession of riots. Apparently the police were either unreliable or inefficient and marine soldiers had been brought in from the French fleet to restore law and order. Occasionally the rip-rap of musketry fire reverberated through the damp…
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- In the bag which the courier from Washington brought this morning there was more bad news, and for a time the Colonel was depressed over the political situation at home. But soon he was arguing stoutly, “Everything will come out all right once the ‘Governor’ returns and gets in touch with the people. How the days have slid by! How long he has been away!” At last it is plain the Colonel is growing anxious over the bitter battle for the ratification of the treaty in the Senate, even now under way,…
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- The ceremony this afternoon in the Trianon Palace Hotel in Versailles when the peace terms were handed over to the Germans was most certainly not a pleasant spectacle. Indeed it has proved almost as unpleasant for the victors as it must have been for the vanquished. The Tiger stood on his feet and was formal and dignified as he handed over the historic document, but unfortunately the attitude of the German plenipotentiary was contemptuous and the long rambling discourse which he read was in the worst…
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