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Park ^ — N. E. A. for 1915 — The Buissons — 

 "Ways to Lasting Peace" — Insurance peace 

 congress — Energetic preparation — Kingsley — 

 "Insurance against War" — A change of heart 



— The joint congress — Cousin Harvey again 



2. Van Beek en Donk — "Annexation and Con- 

 quest" — The Minimum Program — NeutraHty 

 impossible — • Secret treaties and other iniquities 



— La course vers I'abime — A plan for media- 

 tion — Urge toward war — Converting America 



3. Jane Addams and European chancelleries — The 

 Woman's Peace Party — Continuous mediation 



— The only solution — America's leadership — 

 Christmas a time for peace — Facts not to be 

 concealed — Colonel House — "A long shot" — 

 Boardman lecture — The Oscar II — Rosika 

 Schwimmer — Emotional oratory — "Out of 

 the trenches by Christmas" — More than slo- 

 gans needed — Publicity versus patience — 

 Some of the Crusaders — An Unofficial Com- 

 mission of Mediation 



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1. Ways of Pangermany — Two theories of loyalty 



— "The Two Germanys" — Sir Francis Webster 



— Inspiration from Scotland — An agent of 

 Germany — President Lovett — Julian Huxley 



2. Stormy outlook in Mexico ■ — Storey and Kellogg 



— Rojas and his colleagues ■ — Alarming condi- 

 tions — The Columbus raid' — El Paso "holo- 

 caust" — Villa's threat — Carrizal — Populace 

 inflamed — McNary — Another scrap of paper? 



— "El capitan encantado" — "Stabilizing" 

 concessions — Shearers and shorn — Call to Al- 

 buquerque — Appeal for a breathing space — 

 StefFens — Fair but unacceptable — Virtues of 

 conference — Watchful waiting — Honorable 

 concessionaires — Colonel Burns — Violence 

 again urged 



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