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3. N. E. A. in New York — Taft defends the 

 League to Enforce Peace — A plea for Natural 

 History — An extended campaign — A noted 

 sanitarian — Trevelyan's letter — Genera of 

 fishes — Fossil fishes — A Miocene tragedy — 

 Ancestors of living fishes — Unique and amazing! 



Chapter Fifty-three 712 



1. Wilson's efforts for peace — Diver campaign — 

 Imperative demand for war — Willful Senators 



— Emergency Peace Federation — Fall of Rus- 

 sian autocracy — At Columbia — Thoughtful 

 deliberations — ^A Joint High Commission — A 

 League of Neutrals — Madison Square Garden 

 meeting — • Journalistic amenities — Magnes — • 

 War prosperity a grim joke — Arguments for 

 joining the Allies — Wall Street and war — - 

 Menace of triumphant hordes — One motive for 

 compulsory training 



2. At Princeton — Evans Clark — Garrison and 

 the Junkers — Allinson — In Boston — At Yale 



— Phelps and the merry gentlemen — Patten, 

 University of Pennsylvania — First recorded 

 peace commission — Miss Detrick — Student 

 pacifists — " Patriotic " rowdyism — For law 

 and order — Incongruous hymns — Interested 

 instigation — Two programs — The Bannwaert 

 episode — Visitors from Baltimore — Good Po- 

 licing — Unpleasant neighbors — The Presi- 

 dent's decision — Two points of view — Oppos- 

 ing sides of the shield — Breathless campaign — 

 Another forlorn hope — Varying dilemmas — 

 My statement — Successive repulses 



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I. East again — Forebodings in Wall Street — The 

 People's Council — An unwelcome distinction — 

 Appeal to the press — In San Francisco — A 

 plain statement — Need for definition — New 



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