[302] Cf. Le Matin, August 13, 1919.

30 3:  Excess of births over deaths (yearly average).—­Cf. L’Information, January 20, 1919: 

Germany  Great Britain  Italy   France
1861-70   408,333    365,499     183,196  93,515
1871-80   511,034    431,436     191,538  64,063
1881-90   551,308    442,112     307,082  66,982
1891-1900 730,265    430,000     339,409  23,961
1901-10   866,338    484,822     369,959  46,524

[304] Professor L. Marchand.  Cf. La Democratie Nouvelle, April 26, 1919.

[305] Dr. Walter Rathenau, in a book entitled The Death of France.  I have not been able to procure a copy of this book.  The extracts given above are taken from a statement published by M. Brudenne in the Matin of February 16, 1919.

[306] Germania, August 11, 1919.  Cf. Le Temps, September 9, 1919.

[307] M. Andre Tardieu in a speech delivered on August 17, 1919.  Cf.  Paris newspapers of following two days, and in particular New York Herald, August 19th.

[308] Cf. speech delivered by M. Andre Tardieu on August 17, 1919.

[309] On this subject of reparations the Journal de Geneve published several interesting articles at various times, as, for example, on May 15, 1919.

[310] Speech of M. Klotz in the Chamber on September 5, 1919.  Cf. L’Echo de Paris, September 6, 1919.

[311] D’Estournelles de Constant. Bulletin des Droits de l’Homme, May 15, 1919.

[312] The Chicago Tribune (Paris edition), August 24, 1919.

[313] Issued on November 9, 1918.

[314] See The Chicago Tribune (Paris edition), August 30, 1919.

[315] An American Senator uncharitably conjectured that she received this honorable distinction in order to contribute an additional vote to the British.

[316] Cf. interview with a Persian official, published in the Paris edition of The Chicago Tribune, August 19, 1919.

[317] “Unfortunately, Mr. Lloyd George, who has stripped the Foreign Office of real power, has frequently given assurances of this nature, and his acts have always contradicted them.  As a proof, his last interview with M. Clemenceau will serve.”  Cf. L’Echo de Paris, August 15, 1919, article by Pertinax.

[318] Le Journal des Debats, August 15, 1919.

[319] In Washington on August 16, 1919.

[320] The Chicago Tribune (Paris edition), August 19, 1919.

[321] The Chicago Tribune (Paris edition), August 24, 1919.

[322] After the above was written, a French journal, the Echo de Paris of September 19, 1919, announced that General Marsh declares that his agents acted without his instructions, but none the less it holds him responsible for this Baltic policy.

[323] Marshal Douglas Haig, Lord French, the American pacifist, Sydney Baker, Senator Chamberlain, Representative Kahn, and a host of others have been preaching universal military training.  The press, too, with considerable exceptions, favors the movement.  “We want a democratized army, which represents all the nation, and it can be found only in universal service....  Universal service is our best guaranty of peace.”  Cf. The Chicago Tribune (Paris edition), August 22, 1919.