Germans Win Delay on Peace Treaty Reply to May Twenty Ninth
German delegates gained an extension to May 29 for their full reply to the treaty terms. They plan printing moves to Versailles and press protests while emphasizing Fourteen Points and their objections. Leaders in Paris Washington and Berlin weigh possible ratification as council debates sovereignty Armenia and Turkey.
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Wartime Prohibition and Suffrage Debatein Congress
Prohibition and women’s suffrage rise as stormy wartime issues. Brachdonff-Rantzau era ties influence to American ex Pasign and Wilson era stand amid congressional clashes.
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Rantzau
Wilson
Congress
Allies press reparation claims after German note
The council of four responded to German insistence on denying responsibility for the war. Allies argued Germany must accept blame for aggression and reparations, noting Berlin sought to dissociate the people from the government. The discussion cited Lansing’s 1918 statement and Wilson’s shift on allied aims.
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Council of Four
Hun
Lansing
Commission On Responsibility
Wilson urges wartime measures and suffrage move in Congress
President Wilson's Paris address to Congress urges labor, tax, trade, and telegraph and telephone window policies, plus road for prohibition law changes. Republicans push quick action while wets applaud and digs resist. Suffrage gains momentum as House passes an amendment resolution with strong cross party support, senators likely to follow.
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Texas
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Aerial flight tragedy and triumph mark transatlantic runs
Three U S navy planes fled Newfoundland for the Azores with navy escort ships. One reached the Azores safely, one was lost near the islands but the crew were saved, and the third landed on the water and then towed 205 miles to port. Hawker and Grein on a Sopwith failed to reach land on a Newfoundland to Ireland flight. their fate remains unknown.
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Azores
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French Dead Honored in Near East Ice Cream Boom
German merchants cater to American taste importing ice cream freezers and selling real ice cream at three marks a dish. The photograph shows a boy enjoying his ice cream at Neuenalt, Rhenish Prussia.
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Rhenish
Prussia
Silent Before Johnson Rouses a Ropemaker Grandfather Joke
A short street conversation prompts a man named Johnson to confront a joke about his grandfather. Smith denies saying his grandfather was hanged and explains the cautionary remark referred to hanging in general.
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