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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... gain at best a puny advantage . On the one hand , they would have secured the mobilization of several thousand American troops on the Mexican border ; on the other , the wrath of a nation which could bring forward against Germany ...
... gain at best a puny advantage . On the one hand , they would have secured the mobilization of several thousand American troops on the Mexican border ; on the other , the wrath of a nation which could bring forward against Germany ...
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... gain . Having been made to draw the sword , Amer- ica was not to sheathe it until Prussia had ceased to be a menace to the peace of the world . In Paris , enormous crowds , cheering tumultuously , wel- comed home on May 23 the French ...
... gain . Having been made to draw the sword , Amer- ica was not to sheathe it until Prussia had ceased to be a menace to the peace of the world . In Paris , enormous crowds , cheering tumultuously , wel- comed home on May 23 the French ...
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... gains were made , especially in the neighborhood of La Poterie farm . Nearly two miles of trenches were stormed and occupied on June 12 and , in addition , the small village of Gaspard , directly east of Messines , was captured . East ...
... gains were made , especially in the neighborhood of La Poterie farm . Nearly two miles of trenches were stormed and occupied on June 12 and , in addition , the small village of Gaspard , directly east of Messines , was captured . East ...
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... gain ex- tended over a front of 1,400 yards to a depth of 600. Big guns completely leveled British defenses in the dunes sector and destroyed bridges and so cut them off from relief . This success was regarded in London as an incident ...
... gain ex- tended over a front of 1,400 yards to a depth of 600. Big guns completely leveled British defenses in the dunes sector and destroyed bridges and so cut them off from relief . This success was regarded in London as an incident ...
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... gain of a few hundred yards of a front - line trench , which was all that remained in German hands , was small compensation for fierce fighting in the forty attacks of ten weeks , during which conservative estimates placed the German ...
... gain of a few hundred yards of a front - line trench , which was all that remained in German hands , was small compensation for fierce fighting in the forty attacks of ten weeks , during which conservative estimates placed the German ...
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advance Ailette airplanes Aisne Allies altho Ameri April army arrived artillery attack aviators Balfour battle battle of Flanders Belgian Belgium Berlin bombs Bourlon Wood Britain British and French British line brought Cambrai captured cheering Chemin-des-Dames coast command corps counter-attack crowd declared defense dropt east enemy England Entente fighting fire Flanders forces fought France French German German lines Germany's Government guns Guynemer Haig Hill Hindenburg line Houthulst infantry INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE Italian June killed London losses machine-guns machines March Marne Marshal Joffre Masnières Messines miles military months nation naval neutral offensive officers Paris Passchendaele peace Pershing points ports positions President Wilson Prince prisoners Quéant raids reached Ridge Russia salute Senate shells ships shot soldiers stept streets submarine success taken tanks territory thousands tion tons train troops U-boat United Verdun victory village Washington weeks West Western Front women yards York Ypres Zeppelin Zonnebeke
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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...