Why We Went to WarScribner, 1918 - 386 páginas |
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... Political differences , Aristotle has said , spring from small occasions , but from great causes . So it was here . The real causes and the real issues of the war are not to be sought in the Balkans or in the sinking of American ships ...
... Political differences , Aristotle has said , spring from small occasions , but from great causes . So it was here . The real causes and the real issues of the war are not to be sought in the Balkans or in the sinking of American ships ...
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... political creation that history has known , or must approve her destruction , her extermina- tion . A man who is not a German knows nothing of Germany . We are morally and in- Germany they have a far higher respect for constituted ...
... political creation that history has known , or must approve her destruction , her extermina- tion . A man who is not a German knows nothing of Germany . We are morally and in- Germany they have a far higher respect for constituted ...
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... political freedom ; that they should worship the " good old Ger- man God " invoked by the Kaiser might inter- est us as a psychological phenomenon in the history of religions . Yet we were willing that they should continue to accept the ...
... political freedom ; that they should worship the " good old Ger- man God " invoked by the Kaiser might inter- est us as a psychological phenomenon in the history of religions . Yet we were willing that they should continue to accept the ...
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... equality . The German type of mind is anachronistic , feudal . While all other modern European na- tions were liberalizing themselves , Germany remained in spirit what she had been . In political 32 WHY WE WENT TO WAR.
... equality . The German type of mind is anachronistic , feudal . While all other modern European na- tions were liberalizing themselves , Germany remained in spirit what she had been . In political 32 WHY WE WENT TO WAR.
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Christian Gauss. remained in spirit what she had been . In political matters she is the hermit - crab of the nineteenth century . While other governments have been reducing themselves to a common basis of liberal constitutions and ...
Christian Gauss. remained in spirit what she had been . In political matters she is the hermit - crab of the nineteenth century . While other governments have been reducing themselves to a common basis of liberal constitutions and ...
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accept action affairs alliance Allies American Journal American passports arms army attempt August Austria Austria-Hungary Balkan Balkan War Baron Beyens Belgian Belgium believe belligerents Berlin Bernstorff Britain British Bulgaria Central Powers Chancellor citizens contraband covenants December December 18 declared desire Deutschtum diplomatic Emperor enemy England Europe fact fighting force Foreign France French future German Embassy German Empire Germany's gium guarantee Helfferich Herr honor humanity Imperial German Government Imperial Government interest international law issue Italy Jagow Journal of International July justice Kaiser league of nations Lusitania ment military Minister naval negotiations neutral officers ourselves Papen peace plain political possible present President Wilson's principles proposal protest Prussian purpose question ready refused regard Reichstag reply Rumania Russia seas Secretary Serbia settlement ships Special Supplement speech spirit statement submarine territory tion treaty ultimatum United Vernon Kellogg vessels violation warfare Wilson wish
Pasajes populares
Página 289 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty, We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.
Página 334 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of International covenants.
Página 113 - One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of counsel, our peace within and without, our industries and our commerce.
Página 287 - 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.
Página 330 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Página 330 - Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated, occupied territories restored, Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea, and the relations of the several Balkan States to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality...
Página 137 - Government was terrible to a degree ; just for a word — " neutrality," a word which in war-time had so often been disregarded — just for a scrap of paper Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.
Página 350 - ... whether it was justice or dominion and the execution of their own will upon the other nations of the world that the German leaders were seeking. They have answered — answered in unmistakable terms. They have avowed that it was not justice, but dominion and the unhindered execution of their own will. The avowal has not come from Germany's statesmen. It has come from her military leaders, who are her real rulers. Her statesmen have said that they wished peace, and were ready to discuss its terms...
Página 328 - What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation...
Página 11 - Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars — and the short peace more than the long.