Modern Germany in Relation to the Great War

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Mitchell Kennerley, 1916 - 628 pages
"A translation of Deutschland und der Weltkrieg."--Introd. note."The men who wrote this book": pages 625-628.
 

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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 139 - 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 601 - Until a more complete code of the laws of war has been issued, the High Contracting Parties deem it expedient to declare that, in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, the inhabitants and the belligerents remain under the protection and the rule of the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity, and from the dictates of the public conscience.
Page 601 - Until a more complete code of the laws of war can be issued, the High Contracting Parties think it expedient to declare that in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them...
Page 540 - 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 62 - English mind ; to give all who come within its sway the power to look at the things of man's life, at the past, at the future, from the standpoint of an Englishman ; to diffuse within its bounds that high tolerance in religion which has marked this empire from its foundation ; that reverence yet boldness before the mysteriousness of life and death characteristic of our great poets and our great thinkers ; that love of free institutions, that pursuit of an everhigher justice and a larger freedom which,...
Page 601 - Until a more complete code of the laws of war is issued, the High Contracting Parties think it right to declare that in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, populations and belligerents remain under the protection and empire of the principles of international law, as they result from the usages established between civilized nations, from the laws of humanity, and the requirements of the public conscience...
Page 536 - Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across the territory of a neutral Power.
Page 451 - Germany, bone of the same bone, blood of the same blood, with a lesser will-force, but perhaps with a keener intelligence, compete in every corner of the globe. In the Transvaal, at the Cape, in Central Africa, in India and the East, in the islands of the Southern Sea, and in the far Northwest, wherever — and where has it not? — the flag has followed the Bible, and trade has followed the flag, there the German bagman is struggling with the English pedlar.
Page 536 - The fact of a neutral Power resisting, even by force, attempts to violate its neutrality cannot be regarded as a hostile act.

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