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Show c - - - " , ...-!,,;. ,-. ,1.1 1. t!iL. -lory of th. jt ;,,! .;.-,. ra r. ! j i : s ? It miirht wcu t- , ' i i;..- .-..! i t;.- n..,,-r,-. j-,,,. ;.i:-s ha...,,n.:.l in 1! 20 that would for-j ., i,.-u thou, hi ihle. It wouhl have beenj r,., ,,ni.-ti-allv impo.ible that Germany, with lin, from anyh,!v, coul.l have succeeded in con-,,,,-' half a dozen nations, including France, whicn y. t- ai l to have had the l.i'st army in Europe. Tin- v.m-ld saw France sitting pretty behind walls of and concrete, with a vast network of barbed win- lank traps, and machine gun nests. How could any a'taeking force ever penetrate that terrible bar- Yet the Germans ran around the end of that line in ahoiit a fortnight. When that happened, the United Stai.-s and Fngland took the worst shock in their history. his-tory. The result was to subject England to the most merciless war from the skies that the world ever saw, .while America is in serious danger, and is telling its factories and workmen to hurry, hurry up the defense Tin i ir ram. : The year saw little Greece, which had seemed at the Lottom of the whole pile, rise in the might of its valor val-or and dliver a stunning blow at the great Italian ar-;my, ar-;my, which apparently is not enthusiastic over this war. ft has seen a British army administer a blow to a stronger force of Italians in Africa, from which they are still reeling. Our country has seen the turmoil of a presidential election, succeeded by calm and quiet acceptance ac-ceptance of the result. It has seen a tradition in force for l.'ji) years, by which a president should not serve more than two terms, thrown into the wastebasket. These are times of change, and more great changes are Coming. |