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The Treaty, after all, is no final settlement; it is only one step in the great process of world reconstruction. It was with all these considerations in view that the Shantung settlement was made by the Council of Three sitting in the President's house in the Place des Etats-Unis with the Japanese in full agreement.
But by two American flags mounted on the windshield, and the explanatory legends "Service Consulaire des Etats-Unis d'Amerique" and "Amerikanischer Consular dienst" painted in staring letters on the hood, we hoped to make it quite clear to Germans and Belgians alike that we were protected by the international game-laws so far as shooting us was concerned.
We've come here to fight le Boche savez-vows? combattre le Boche!" He waved his arms frantically and made a motion as if shooting with a gun. A smile broke over Mother Meraut's face, and she held out both hands. "Les Americains!" she cried joyfully, "des Etats-Unis, dans l'uniforme de la France! Mais maintenant nous exterminons le Boche!" She called Pierrette and Pierre to her side.
"Bad luck to the word of that I'd be understandin' at all, at all. Can't ye spake so a body'd understand what ye'd mane?" "C'est ma grande consolation d'avoir. * Les Etats-Unis est une modle de perfection republicaine," said he, taking the blanket from Daley and throwing it upon the floor.
Other general works are Mulford's The Nation: the Foundation of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States; Laboulaye's Histoire Politique des Etats-Unis, 3 vols.; and Lamphere's The United States Government: Its Organization and Practical Workings, this last being chiefly valuable for its statistical and tabulated information.
The Scandinavian names in an unlettered community, soon become indistinguishable from those of the surrounding American's Jansen, Petersen, etc., being readily Americanized. It is therefore rarely that they show their parentage. MS. Journal of Matthew Clarkson, 1766. See also "Voyage dans les Etats-Unis," La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Paris, L'an, VII., I., 104.
He had strolled out after dinner to the Chaussée des États-Unis to while away the time before going to bed. Ships and sailors, with the lights and sights and sounds of a busy port, had for him the fascination they exert over most men who lead rather sedentary lives. At that time in the evening the Chaussée des États-Unis was naturally gay with the landsman's welcome to the sailor on shore.
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