War Addresses of Woodrow WilsonGinn, 1918 - 129 páginas |
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... ally , and Russia , unready for war , was compelled to submit . For the neighboring state of Serbia this annexation was a serious blow . The annexed provinces were peopled with Slavs , and the Serbians had cherished the ambition of ...
... ally , and Russia , unready for war , was compelled to submit . For the neighboring state of Serbia this annexation was a serious blow . The annexed provinces were peopled with Slavs , and the Serbians had cherished the ambition of ...
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... ally . Germany and Belgium . In 1839 Great Britain , France , Austria , Russia , and Prussia joined in guaranteeing the in- dependence and perpetual neutrality of Belgium . Treaties between Great Britain and France and between Great ...
... ally . Germany and Belgium . In 1839 Great Britain , France , Austria , Russia , and Prussia joined in guaranteeing the in- dependence and perpetual neutrality of Belgium . Treaties between Great Britain and France and between Great ...
Página xxiii
... Allies held prac- tically a straight line from Riga to the Rumanian frontier . Italy and the War . Italy , it will be remembered , was bound by the terms of the Triple Alliance to assist Ger- many and Austria - Hungary in case they ...
... Allies held prac- tically a straight line from Riga to the Rumanian frontier . Italy and the War . Italy , it will be remembered , was bound by the terms of the Triple Alliance to assist Ger- many and Austria - Hungary in case they ...
Página xxiv
... Allies was at hand . Soon , however , Rumania was attacked from the south by Bulgaria , and on the north by fresh German and Austrian armies . Her defense collapsed ; the promised Russian aid did not arrive ; and before the end of 1916 ...
... Allies was at hand . Soon , however , Rumania was attacked from the south by Bulgaria , and on the north by fresh German and Austrian armies . Her defense collapsed ; the promised Russian aid did not arrive ; and before the end of 1916 ...
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... Allies ' brutal methods of war and by their determination to destroy the Central Powers , and that the Government of the United States will further realize that the now openly disclosed intention of the Entente Allies gives back to ...
... Allies ' brutal methods of war and by their determination to destroy the Central Powers , and that the Government of the United States will further realize that the now openly disclosed intention of the Entente Allies gives back to ...
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Página 45 - 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...
Página 96 - Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence...
Página xxxi - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.
Página 40 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
Página 36 - With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Página 45 - If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression; but if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few. It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus 44 addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible...
Página 95 - ... live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
Página 39 - We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. 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...
Página 9 - And the paths of the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. The freedom of the seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality, and cooperation.
Página 39 - Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest.