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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... side of which all events in the trenches , and all discussion of peace possibilities in various parliaments . paled into insignificance . The world now had from Germany a new ultimatum in the form of a reply to the address of President ...
... side of which all events in the trenches , and all discussion of peace possibilities in various parliaments . paled into insignificance . The world now had from Germany a new ultimatum in the form of a reply to the address of President ...
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... sides against Germany . The mere necessity for it was the compelling Ger- man argument . Germany could not see why any nation fight- ing for self - preservation was not justified in picking up any weapon of defense that lay ready to ...
... sides against Germany . The mere necessity for it was the compelling Ger- man argument . Germany could not see why any nation fight- ing for self - preservation was not justified in picking up any weapon of defense that lay ready to ...
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... sides of the Atlantic for a generation to come . " It added that no greater action , except the war itself , had hap- pened since the French Revolution " shattered the traditions of feudalism in Europe . " The cause in which America had ...
... sides of the Atlantic for a generation to come . " It added that no greater action , except the war itself , had hap- pened since the French Revolution " shattered the traditions of feudalism in Europe . " The cause in which America had ...
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... a storm of applause and soon the entire palace echoed with shouts and cheers . " Dis- patches quoted Foreign Minister Miliukoff as saying : " The ideal side of the war is once more emphasized by 34 ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
... a storm of applause and soon the entire palace echoed with shouts and cheers . " Dis- patches quoted Foreign Minister Miliukoff as saying : " The ideal side of the war is once more emphasized by 34 ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
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... side of the war is once more emphasized by the inter- vention of America . " Within twenty - four hours there came over London a re- markable change of opinion as to the length of the war . There was in some quarters a somewhat general ...
... side of the war is once more emphasized by the inter- vention of America . " Within twenty - four hours there came over London a re- markable change of opinion as to the length of the war . There was in some quarters a somewhat general ...
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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...