THE WAR EDITORIALS FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN PHILADELPHIA JULY, 1914-MARCH, 1916 PRESS OF J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY EAST WASHINGTON SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA Copyright, 1915, by The North American Company Set up and electrotyped by The North American Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company t B. Joy 8/167460 FOREWORD THESE editorials are published in collected form in T response to suggestions from many readers, who have found them useful as a survey of the historical backgrounds of the great war, and as an interpretation, from an American point of view, of the issues involved. The articles are presented in chronological order, and cover the first seven months of the conflict, from the Austrian ultimatum to Servia to the bombardment of the Dardanelles forts by warships of the Allies. They have the faults inseparable from the hasty composition required by daily newspaper work, but it is worth noting that no revision has been deemed necessary in either statements of fact or expressions of opinion. THE NORTH AMERICAN. Philadelphia, March 25, 1915. (July 29, 1914.) Ominous conditions at end of July.- (August 1.) Terrible possibilities of world war.-The (August 8.)_ No hope of peace.-How nations were (August 7.) Evidence of events from July 23 to August The courage recognized by Caesar.-Historic gallantry Her peculiar responsibility. Colonial expansion and naval power.-Germany's "peace" policy. The Triple Entente. Britain's restraint. Invasion of Belgium War inspired by monarchism.-Preachings of racial German-American criticisms of American opinion.-It 33 |