Current History, Том 6,Део 1C-H Publishing Corporation, 1917 |
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... heavy losses upon the advancing foe . Even the English military experts de- scribe the German withdrawal as a long- prepared strategic chess move . It is to be expected that the Germans will fall back upon the line Soissons - Lille ...
... heavy losses upon the advancing foe . Even the English military experts de- scribe the German withdrawal as a long- prepared strategic chess move . It is to be expected that the Germans will fall back upon the line Soissons - Lille ...
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... heavy loss of life . Two English nurses were among those killed . some Air duels have been frequent on the western front , as many as eleven and thirteen machines being brought down on days . Broadstairs was bombarded by a German ...
... heavy loss of life . Two English nurses were among those killed . some Air duels have been frequent on the western front , as many as eleven and thirteen machines being brought down on days . Broadstairs was bombarded by a German ...
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... heavy rains , but early in January , 1917 , the advance was again pressed , and on Jan. 9 and 10 the enemies ' trenches northeast of Kut were captured after a stubborn conflict . Rain caused another delay of more than a week , but by ...
... heavy rains , but early in January , 1917 , the advance was again pressed , and on Jan. 9 and 10 the enemies ' trenches northeast of Kut were captured after a stubborn conflict . Rain caused another delay of more than a week , but by ...
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... heavy re- inforcements of perhaps 40,000 men , but von Bülow's crushing defeat to the east made it impossible for the German line to re - form for a counterattack . The German retreat is admitted to have been a military masterpiece ...
... heavy re- inforcements of perhaps 40,000 men , but von Bülow's crushing defeat to the east made it impossible for the German line to re - form for a counterattack . The German retreat is admitted to have been a military masterpiece ...
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... heavy fire , and a good part of the British Army crossed , but with great difficulty . The following day these French and British troops fought their way forward until they came in touch with the real German lines of intrenchment on the ...
... heavy fire , and a good part of the British Army crossed , but with great difficulty . The following day these French and British troops fought their way forward until they came in touch with the real German lines of intrenchment on the ...
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Страница 193 - 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 195 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic Government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Страница 196 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty, We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.
Страница 193 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making — we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated.
Страница 131 - We give Thee thanks for all Thy benefits, O Almighty God, who livest and reignest for ever; and may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Страница 192 - ... American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our...
Страница 199 - President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States towards the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted...
Страница 192 - ... which it is impossible to employ as it is employing them without throwing to the winds all scruples of humanity or of respect for the understandings that were supposed to underlie the intercourse of the world.
Страница 193 - 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 198 - President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...