The Great Events of the Great War: A Comprehensive and Readable Source Record of the World's Great War, Emphasizing the More Important Events, and Presenting These as Complete Narratives in the Actual Words of the Chief Officials and Most Eminent Leaders ... Presenting Documents from Government Archives and Other Authoritative Sources, with Outline Narratives, Indices, Chronologies, and Courses of Reading on Sociological Movements and Individual National Activities, Volumen4Charles Francis Horne, Walter Forward Austin National alumni, 1923 |
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... possible soldiers.1 That is , of her four million sons once fit to defend her by physical force , over a million were dead or permanently crippled , or -worse still - were prisoners to the sullenly embittered Ger- mans . France , the ...
... possible soldiers.1 That is , of her four million sons once fit to defend her by physical force , over a million were dead or permanently crippled , or -worse still - were prisoners to the sullenly embittered Ger- mans . France , the ...
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... possible strength , and was by no means the Ger- many which had so eagerly welcomed war two and a half years before . THE PEACE TALK AND THE DEEPENING SHADOW To the German people the goal of world - conquest no longer glowed with such ...
... possible strength , and was by no means the Ger- many which had so eagerly welcomed war two and a half years before . THE PEACE TALK AND THE DEEPENING SHADOW To the German people the goal of world - conquest no longer glowed with such ...
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... possible . Doubters had even begun to fear that with their utmost effort and sacrifice they could not outlast Germany . But when the Allies learned what the Ger- man Government really demanded , as opposed to the fair words of its ...
... possible . Doubters had even begun to fear that with their utmost effort and sacrifice they could not outlast Germany . But when the Allies learned what the Ger- man Government really demanded , as opposed to the fair words of its ...
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... possible army being rebuilt from the escaped Serbs , who were pro- tected in their Adriatic refuge by the navy of Italy . THE WAR SPREADS IN ASIA At the opening of 1916 Russia signalized her returning strength by a successful campaign ...
... possible army being rebuilt from the escaped Serbs , who were pro- tected in their Adriatic refuge by the navy of Italy . THE WAR SPREADS IN ASIA At the opening of 1916 Russia signalized her returning strength by a successful campaign ...
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... possible enslavement . Such compulsory labor did not , however , become common until 1916. Then it gradually in- creased in severity . At first the people were set to tasks in their own neighborhood and were paid for the work . Next ...
... possible enslavement . Such compulsory labor did not , however , become common until 1916. Then it gradually in- creased in severity . At first the people were set to tasks in their own neighborhood and were paid for the work . Next ...
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Página 116 - In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty: six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare and of its exaltation among the nations.
Página 115 - IRISHMEN and IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Página 101 - But (it added) neutrals can not expect that Germany, forced to fight for her existence, shall, for the sake of neutral interest, restrict the use of an effective weapon if her enemy is permitted to continue to apply at will methods of warfare violating the rules of international law. Such a demand would be incompatible with the character of neutrality, and the German Government is convinced that the Government of the United States does not think of making such a demand, knowing that the Government...
Página 115 - WE DECLARE the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
Página 90 - Government to prosecute relentless and indiscriminate warfare against vessels of commerce by the use of submarines without regard to what the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless...
Página 92 - States might find it possible to hope that the officer who was responsible for that act had wilfully violated his orders or had been criminally negligent in taking none of the precautions they prescribed, and that the ends of justice might be satisfied by imposing upon him an adequate punishment, coupled with a formal disavowal of the act and payment of a suitable indemnity by the Imperial Government. But, though the attack upon the Sussex...
Página 91 - A careful, detailed, and scrupulously | impartial investigation by naval and military officers of the United States has conclusively established the fact that the Sussex was torpedoed without warning or summons | to surrender, and that the torpedo by which she was struck was of German manufacture.
Página 116 - The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens...
Página 116 - Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrage of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
Página 95 - If it is still the purpose of the Imperial Government to prosecute relentless and indiscriminate warfare against vessels of commerce by the use of submarines without regard to what the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue.