[Illustration:  Enjoying A bit of Cake baked at the American red cross canteen at is-sur-Tille, France.]

[Illustration:  Corporal Fred. McINTYRE of 369th infantry, with picture of the kaiser which he captured from A German officer.]

[Illustration:  Lieut.  Robert L. Campbell, negro officer of the 368th infantry who won fame and the D.S.C.  In Argonne forest. He devised A clever piece of strategy and displayed great heroism in the execution of it.]

[Illustration:  Emmett J. Scott, appointed by secretary Baker, as special assistant during the world war.  He was formerly confidential secretary to the late Booker T. Washington.]

[Illustration:  (Top)—­general Diaz, commander-in-chief Italian armies.  Marshal Foch, commander-in-chief allied forces.

(Center)—­general Pershing, commander-in-chief American armies.  Admiral Sims, in charge of American naval operations overseas.

(Bottom)—­king Albert, commander-in-chief Belgian army.  Field Marshal Haig, head of British armies.]

In a later section of the same message the proposition was also advanced that the American continent was no longer subject to colonization.  This clause of the doctrine was the work of Monroe’s secretary of state, John Quincy Adams, and its occasion was furnished by the fear that Russia was planning to set up a colony at San Francisco, then the property of Spain, whose natural heir on the North American continent, Adams held, was the United States.  It is this clause of the document that has furnished much of the basis for its subsequent development.

In 1902 Germany united with Great Britain and Italy to collect by force certain claims against Venezuela.  President Roosevelt demanded and finally, after threatening to dispatch Admiral Dewey to the scene of action, obtained a statement that she would not permanently occupy Venezuelan territory.  Of this statement one of the most experienced and trusted American editors, avowedly friendly to Germany, remarked at the time,