Woodrow Wilson and the World War: A Chronicle of Our Own TimesYale University Press, 1921 - 382 страница |
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... merely personal interest to underline his salient traits . Let it be premised that a logical and satisfactory analysis is well - nigh impossible , for his nature is self - contradictory , subject to gusts of temperament , and he himself ...
... merely personal interest to underline his salient traits . Let it be premised that a logical and satisfactory analysis is well - nigh impossible , for his nature is self - contradictory , subject to gusts of temperament , and he himself ...
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... merely to stiffen his resolution . Wherever the responsibility is his , he insists upon the finality of his judgment . Those who have worked with him have remarked upon his eager- ness , once he has decided a course of action , to carry ...
... merely to stiffen his resolution . Wherever the responsibility is his , he insists upon the finality of his judgment . Those who have worked with him have remarked upon his eager- ness , once he has decided a course of action , to carry ...
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... merely to carry that policy into effect , gave to the public some justification for its belief that Wilson's was a " one - man " Govern- ment . This belief was further intensified by the President's extreme sensitiveness to hostile ...
... merely to carry that policy into effect , gave to the public some justification for its belief that Wilson's was a " one - man " Govern- ment . This belief was further intensified by the President's extreme sensitiveness to hostile ...
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... mere ad- miration , Wilson would have found his political task immeasurably lightened . It is not surprising that his mistakes in tactics should have been so numerous . His isolation and dependence upon tactical advisers , such as ...
... mere ad- miration , Wilson would have found his political task immeasurably lightened . It is not surprising that his mistakes in tactics should have been so numerous . His isolation and dependence upon tactical advisers , such as ...
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... striking , perhaps , is his conviction that the President of the United States must be something more than a mere executive superintendent . The entire responsibility for the administration of government 20 WOODROW WILSON AND THE WAR.
... striking , perhaps , is his conviction that the President of the United States must be something more than a mere executive superintendent . The entire responsibility for the administration of government 20 WOODROW WILSON AND THE WAR.
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Страница 111 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments...
Страница 207 - There is no other course open to us but to fight it out. Every position must be held to the last man : there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause each one of us must fight on to the end. The safety of our homes and the Freedom of mankind alike depend upon the conduct of each one of us at this critical moment.
Страница 110 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
Страница 30 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second — never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.
Страница 285 - It is also declared to be the friendly right of each Member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly or of the Council any circumstance whatever affecting international relations which threatens to disturb international peace or the good understanding between nations upon which peace depends.
Страница 110 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.
Страница 353 - Not on the vulgar mass Called " work," must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Страница 101 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its policy over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Страница 285 - The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
Страница 227 - What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in ; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealings by the other peoples of the world, as against force and selfish aggression.