The War from this Side: Editorials from the North American, Philadelphia ...Press of J.B. Lippincott Company, 1917 |
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... thru . " - Signs of weakening German power . THE BATTLE OF DEMOCRACY Shall autocracy or democracy rule the world ? -Latter always weak in war at first . - Battle of the Somme shows that free peoples can organize for defense . - A war of ...
... thru . " - Signs of weakening German power . THE BATTLE OF DEMOCRACY Shall autocracy or democracy rule the world ? -Latter always weak in war at first . - Battle of the Somme shows that free peoples can organize for defense . - A war of ...
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... thru exhausting endeavor , she had put before them another - she was always one campaign ahead . While the French were reel- ing from one savage thrust , she smote the British line ; before Russia was able to halt her disordered forces ...
... thru exhausting endeavor , she had put before them another - she was always one campaign ahead . While the French were reel- ing from one savage thrust , she smote the British line ; before Russia was able to halt her disordered forces ...
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... thru the murk of battle , that the nation was drugged by a false philosophy and led to disaster by a deluded statesmanship ? And there is a still deeper source of weakness . The national spirit which could exult over the corpse of ...
... thru the murk of battle , that the nation was drugged by a false philosophy and led to disaster by a deluded statesmanship ? And there is a still deeper source of weakness . The national spirit which could exult over the corpse of ...
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... thru Sheru- zovitse and Stanystavezyk along the Styr , and thru Olesko- Zboroff to Brzezany , forming a zigzag to the upper Zlota Lipa ; along that stream to Zawatow , thence southwest to Jezupol , at the mouth of the Bystritza - Maidan ...
... thru Sheru- zovitse and Stanystavezyk along the Styr , and thru Olesko- Zboroff to Brzezany , forming a zigzag to the upper Zlota Lipa ; along that stream to Zawatow , thence southwest to Jezupol , at the mouth of the Bystritza - Maidan ...
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... thru delivering her military power to that group which appears certain to be victorious in the continental struggle . The vital question for her is , of course , which side will win . Bulgaria's guess seemed plausible , but the easy ...
... thru delivering her military power to that group which appears certain to be victorious in the continental struggle . The vital question for her is , of course , which side will win . Bulgaria's guess seemed plausible , but the easy ...
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Page 353 - It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace...
Page 352 - 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.
Page 284 - I refuse to believe that it is the intention of the, German authorities to do in fact what they have warned us they will feel at liberty to do. I cannot 'bring myself to believe that they will indeed pay no regard to the ancient friendship between their people and our own or to the solemn obligations which have been exchanged between them and destroy American ships and take the lives of American citizens in the wilful prosecution of the ruthless naval program they have announced their intention to...
Page 363 - ... supplying the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance.
Page 240 - Government that it cannot for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other Government affecting the rights of neutrals and noncombatants. Responsibility in such matters is single, not joint; absolute, not relative.
Page 79 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.
Page 354 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 228 - Second, an universal association of the nations to maintain the inviolate security of the highway of the seas for the common and unhindered use of all the nations of the world, and to prevent any war begun either contrary to treaty covenants or without warning and full submission of the causes to the opinion of the world — a virtual guarantee of territorial integrity and political independence.
Page 229 - It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of any nation now engaged or any alliance hitherto formed or projected that no nation, no probable combination of nations could face or withstand it. If the peace presently to be made is to endure, it must be a peace made secure by the organized major force of mankind.