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Identifier: literarydigesthi10hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to offset part of her reparationpayment of 100,000.000,000 marks was about as thinkable a pro-posal as would have been another for damae-es because the UnitedStates had entered the war and sent 2,000,000 troops to France.Each would have had about the same basis in law and reason. The bones of Reims now lay bleaching in the sun. The wreck ofthe martyred city lay as the war left it. The stark skeleton of itsnoble cathedral showed its tortured towers making the appeal of onein agony. Its wide avenues had tree-stumps bordered with ruin invarious degrees. The wreckage of a million German shells filled theeye on all sides. The streets in some places had been swept clear ofdebris. Otherwise all was as war had left it. Only fourteen housesout of 14,000 in the city had not been hit. Through that scene ofdesolation sightseei-s prowled in spic-and-span automobiles, giving anincongruous touch. Near a fence built around the cathedral oldFrenchmen gold souvenirs. ^Yhere in Germany was the power 324
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/OOD a U NDE CHANCELLOR SCHEIDEMANN DENOUNCING SEVERELY THE TERMS OF PEACE OFFERED TO GERMANY He is standing in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin. Scheidemann resigned soon afterward, having in his speech committed himself too deeply against the terms to change his attitude so soon again V. X—22 325 SKETCHES, PEACE TREATY, CHRONOLOGY that could restore Reims Catliedral? From what part of Germanycould come a master to restore tlie noble avenues of trees, the blastedstumps of which marked the Inck of them? What German architectcould rebuild daintywest? Could Ger-city of homes andstroyed ? Since the warhowever, had comea German here aiuling to understandZukunft, for ex-Witting raised ahad been the matlermind, as exhibitedWhile public men,tary commandersfor bitter blame, heten that they hndGerman teachingasked how had beenstrange Ge r m a nhad brought theanswer he gave wasdeliberately p n twith modern ideas,essentially that ofpletely misconceiy-iipon her by hertion, she had been

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