Created back in the wake of the depression by roosevelt in order to help make Home Ownership more widely available. After words airs sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous after words programs at booktv. Org. Columbia University Professor Susan Pedersen is next on booktv. She recalls the paris peace be conference after world war i and the creation of the league of nations. The great war had been a war of empires, and to the victorious allied powers, it seemed as if militaristic and aggressive empires had been defeated while the oppressive empire, the russians, had fallen by the wayside in the throes of revolt. It seemed as if the good empires who thought of themselves as having reluctantly acquired their possessions and had administered these for the good of their peoples had triumphed. Now it was left to the victors to clean up the mess, so to speak. President wilson had stressed the selfdetermination of nations as one of his 14 points, but this idea came up against dem
To share with some of the viewers the quotes that you keep very dear to your heart in latin and greek, the sayings that are part of you may be these with a couple of those and why they inform your life. There are all of these things that float in and out of my life that i will choose just a few. So, one of the poems that i first learned with ancient greek which begins with [inaudible] and its a marvelous poem about a person imagined running away so there are very lessons that can be learned. One is to cut the losses were what do they mean to posture even though you are doing so hotly communicating with listeners that you have found something according to the cultural code, so how do you nonetheless maneuver around and help shape others. The latin text that i think about is one that you either did it to [inaudible] why am i doing this, i dont know. I feel its being done and i am tortured. At this plaintiff is a sort of ambivalence, the sort of constant maneuver back and forth in export
In a newly issued report, Britain has recommended the partitioning of Mandatory Palestine in order to resolve what it sees as an irreconcilable conflict.