The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, British, French, German, and Others, Том 4Francis Whiting Halsey Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1919 This collection is a general military and diplomatic history of the First World War, from June 1914 to May 1920. Military affairs are the foremost issue, with political and diplomatic events relevant to the war intertwined. The work includes short biographies of important military leaders. |
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... airplane , balloon , or airship . It was estimated that this proclamation , which supplemented one issued April 6 , would affect about 130,000 persons in New York , and about 600,000 in the country at large . Early in the war Ambassador ...
... airplane , balloon , or airship . It was estimated that this proclamation , which supplemented one issued April 6 , would affect about 130,000 persons in New York , and about 600,000 in the country at large . Early in the war Ambassador ...
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... airplane to be the decisive factor in this war . By Octo- ber 4 , contracts had been let by the War Department for the construction of 20,000 of them . This was practically the whole number of airplanes for which provision had been made ...
... airplane to be the decisive factor in this war . By Octo- ber 4 , contracts had been let by the War Department for the construction of 20,000 of them . This was practically the whole number of airplanes for which provision had been made ...
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... airplane kept its vigil overhead , and special guards of French and American soldiers were gathered about the place . Our soldiers under Pershing , on arrival in France , did not at once go to the front , but to training - camps , the ...
... airplane kept its vigil overhead , and special guards of French and American soldiers were gathered about the place . Our soldiers under Pershing , on arrival in France , did not at once go to the front , but to training - camps , the ...
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... airplanes went droning by . Overhead airplanes continued to circle , until the sky was dotted with puffs of black shrapnel smoke from enemy's 166 ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
... airplanes went droning by . Overhead airplanes continued to circle , until the sky was dotted with puffs of black shrapnel smoke from enemy's 166 ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
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... Airplanes wheeled and re - wheeled over the heads of Germans and maintained such an intensive fire that they were forced to retire , after suffering considerable losses . Tanks then pushed on , and the conquest of the wood was completed ...
... Airplanes wheeled and re - wheeled over the heads of Germans and maintained such an intensive fire that they were forced to retire , after suffering considerable losses . Tanks then pushed on , and the conquest of the wood was completed ...
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Страница 349 - What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Страница 28 - With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Страница 28 - Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Страница 19 - The Senate of the United States is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Страница 258 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Страница 11 - I shall take the liberty of coming again before the Congress, to ask that authority be given me to use any means that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and our people in the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the high seas.
Страница 28 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it...
Страница 6 - And the paths of the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. The freedom of the seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality, and cooperation.
Страница 15 - ... suggest that the President of Mexico on his own initiative should communicate with Japan suggesting adherence at once to this plan; at the same time offer to mediate between Germany and Japan. Please call to the attention of the President of Mexico that the employment of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compel England to make peace in a few months.
Страница 338 - The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest coopera-tion of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy...