Deutschland und der Weltkrieg

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Otto Hintze, Friedrich Meinecke, Hermann Oncken, Hermann Schumacher
B. G. Teubner, 1915 - 686 pages
 

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Page 140 - If Germany were extinguished tomorrow, the day after tomorrow there is not an Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession; must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce...
Page 139 - For us, with a powerful Fleet, which we believe able to protect our commerce, to protect our shores, and to protect our interests, if we are engaged in war, we shall suffer but little more than we shall suffer even if we stand aside.
Page 569 - SM le roi des Pays-Bas, grand-duc de Luxembourg, sont considérés comme ayant la même force et valeur que s'ils étaient textuellement insérés dans le présent acte, et qu'ils se trouvent ainsi placés sous la garantie de Leurs dites Majestés.
Page 569 - Art. 7. La Belgique, dans les limites indiquées aux articles 1, 2 et 4, formera un État indépendant et perpétuellement neutre. Elle sera tenue d'observer cette même neutralité envers tous les autres États.
Page 574 - Parties; and on the expiration of that time the independence and neutrality of Belgium will, so far as the High Contracting Parties are respectively concerned, continue to rest as heretofore on the 1st Article of the Quintuple Treaty of the 19th of April, 1839.
Page 570 - Ne peut être considéré comme un acte hostile le fait, par une Puissance neutre, de repousser, même par la force, les atteintes à sa neutralité.
Page 579 - Curtis, 454, 459, and he held that whilst it would always be a matter of the utmost gravity and delicacy to refuse to execute a treaty, the power to do so was prerogative, of which no nation could be deprived without deeply affecting its independence...
Page 537 - Europe was never more seriously threatened than it was now. He did not wish to ask me to say directly that we would intervene, but he would like me to say what we should do if certain circumstances arose. The particular hypothesis he had in mind was an aggression by Germany on France. He gave me a paper, of which a copy is also enclosed, showing that the German military preparations were more advanced and more on the offensive upon the frontier than anything France had yet done.
Page 570 - Il est interdit aux belligérants de faire passer à travers le territoire d'une Puissance neutre des troupes ou des convois, soit de munition, soit d'approvisionnements.

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