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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... five Democrats and seven Republicans . Some of these declared afterward that they were not op sed to the passage of a bill permitting the President to arm ships , but that they were opposed to certain provisions of the bill in question ...
... five Democrats and seven Republicans . Some of these declared afterward that they were not op sed to the passage of a bill permitting the President to arm ships , but that they were opposed to certain provisions of the bill in question ...
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... five to their al- ready heavy toll of American lives , official Washington realized that we had passed , by the inexorable logic of events , from " armed neutrality " to " a state of war . " That was the view taken by the Cabinet in its ...
... five to their al- ready heavy toll of American lives , official Washington realized that we had passed , by the inexorable logic of events , from " armed neutrality " to " a state of war . " That was the view taken by the Cabinet in its ...
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... five miles off the coast of Holland , outside the German barred zone and within the limits of the safety - zone . A score of human lives were lost . The act was one of the cumulative provocations that could make no change in our growing ...
... five miles off the coast of Holland , outside the German barred zone and within the limits of the safety - zone . A score of human lives were lost . The act was one of the cumulative provocations that could make no change in our growing ...
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... five American ships had been sunk by the Teutonic powers , fifteen of them by submarines . On these and on belligerent passenger - ships , including the Lusitania , more than 230 Americans had perished - many of them women and children ...
... five American ships had been sunk by the Teutonic powers , fifteen of them by submarines . On these and on belligerent passenger - ships , including the Lusitania , more than 230 Americans had perished - many of them women and children ...
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... five , ten , or twenty divisions of men . Many Britons talked of peace by May or June , with the maximum fore- cast fixing November as the final month of hostilities . Fri- day , April 20 , was set apart in London as " America Day ...
... five , ten , or twenty divisions of men . Many Britons talked of peace by May or June , with the maximum fore- cast fixing November as the final month of hostilities . Fri- day , April 20 , was set apart in London as " America Day ...
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Страница 351 - What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Страница 30 - 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 30 - 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 260 - 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 30 - 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 8 - 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 13 - 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 17 - ... 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 261 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Страница 340 - 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...