Author Archives: Ron Pavellas
Three Haiku from Today’s Walk on Bernal Hill
low sunlight reveals arachne’s glimmering shroud blanketing parched ground old oaks on hilltop thrive among the dry grasses during this year’s drought modest blue flower reminds us of many lives hidden by the grass
“… at last the world knows America as the savior of the world!”
The words in the heading for this article are those of President Woodrow Wilson, given to an audience in Portland, Oregon, 1919, referencing the USA’s role in the establishment of the League of Nations after the end of World War … Continue reading
Posted in Government & Politics, War & Peace
Tagged Danzig corridor, Democracy, First World War, Human Rights and Democracy Fund, League of Nations, Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies, the war to end war, The Warsaw Declaration, Treaty of Versailles, US State Department
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