—From The Cape Times, Cape Town, South Africa.
THE GERMAN EAGLE (tearfully): "As bird to bird—surely you won't desert me?"
THE AMERICAN EAGLE: "Desert you! I'm an eagle, not a vulture!"
The Chances of Peace and the Problem of Poland
By J. Ellis Barker
[From The Nineteenth Century and After, Leonard Scott Publishing Company.]
A century ago, at the Congress of Vienna, the question of Poland proved extremely difficult to solve. It produced dangerous friction among the assembled powers, and threatened to lead to the break-up of the congress. The position became so threatening that, on the 3d of January, 1815, Austria, Great Britain, and France felt compelled to conclude a secret separate alliance directed against Prussia and Russia, the allies of Austria and Great Britain in the war against Napoleon. Precautionary troop movements began, and war among the allies might have broken out had not, shortly afterward, Napoleon quitted Elba and landed in France. Fear of the great Corsican reunited the powers.