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Page ix
... success of campaign , 17 ; figures showing subscriptions , 224 . See also UNITED STATES - Finances . LIEBKNECHT , ( Dr. ) Karl , opposition to German war policy , 439 , 447 ; criticism of war loan in Reichstag and disturbance following ...
... success of campaign , 17 ; figures showing subscriptions , 224 . See also UNITED STATES - Finances . LIEBKNECHT , ( Dr. ) Karl , opposition to German war policy , 439 , 447 ; criticism of war loan in Reichstag and disturbance following ...
Page xiv
... success of Liberty Loan cam- raign , allotments and subscription , 17 ; subscriptions and allotments by districts for Liberty Loan , 224 ; loans to allies , 414 . Foreign Policy , outstanding features dis- cussed in How the War Came to ...
... success of Liberty Loan cam- raign , allotments and subscription , 17 ; subscriptions and allotments by districts for Liberty Loan , 224 ; loans to allies , 414 . Foreign Policy , outstanding features dis- cussed in How the War Came to ...
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... successful airplanes . The original Wright hangar , placed on a modest tract of eighty - six acres , which constituted the Wright experimental field , is set within the boundaries of the big new Government field . " A statement by the ...
... successful airplanes . The original Wright hangar , placed on a modest tract of eighty - six acres , which constituted the Wright experimental field , is set within the boundaries of the big new Government field . " A statement by the ...
Page 17
... success . There was much gratification over the large oversubscription , and es- pecially because of the large number of individual subscribers . w PERIOD ENDED JUNE 20 , 1917 GERMAN merchant vessels numbering. FOOD CRISIS IN THE UNITED ...
... success . There was much gratification over the large oversubscription , and es- pecially because of the large number of individual subscribers . w PERIOD ENDED JUNE 20 , 1917 GERMAN merchant vessels numbering. FOOD CRISIS IN THE UNITED ...
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... successful . The Italians had their object thoroughly in mind and were not to be distracted from it . Fighting on the ... success in this war is based . In this case it is of particular im- portance in view of the railroad and supply ...
... successful . The Italians had their object thoroughly in mind and were not to be distracted from it . Fighting on the ... success in this war is based . In this case it is of particular im- portance in view of the railroad and supply ...
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Page 72 - 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...
Page 302 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions...
Page 66 - ... supplying the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field, and we should help them in every way to be effective there.
Page 72 - ... all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to the Government in the hour of test.
Page 63 - I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history been deemed innocent and legitimate.
Page 72 - They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other fealty or allegiance. They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining the few who may be of a different mind and purpose. If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression...
Page 67 - I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established...
Page 68 - It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.
Page 2 - The war was begun by the military masters of Germany, who proved to be also the masters of Austria-Hungary. These men have never regarded nations as peoples, men, women, and children of like blood and frame as themselves, for whom governments existed and in whom governments had their life. They have regarded them merely as serviceable organizations which they could by force or intrigue bend of corrupt to their own purpose.
Page 65 - The German Government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the areas of the sea which it has proscribed, even in the defense of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right to defend.