The Audacious WarHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 192 páginas |
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... scope for enterprise and development beyond all the previous dreams of this genera- tion . The United States , with hundreds of millions of banking reserves released and giving base for a business expansion double any we have had before ,
... scope for enterprise and development beyond all the previous dreams of this genera- tion . The United States , with hundreds of millions of banking reserves released and giving base for a business expansion double any we have had before ,
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... base nearer Scotland . Submarines as now built could go from Ger- many around the British Isles and then across the Atlantic - in fair weather . The eastern boundary of France divides itself into four very nearly equal sections . Italy ...
... base nearer Scotland . Submarines as now built could go from Ger- many around the British Isles and then across the Atlantic - in fair weather . The eastern boundary of France divides itself into four very nearly equal sections . Italy ...
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... base at Kiao- Chau in the Far East . Now , while Germany is besieged on all sides and Italy and Roumania are preparing to go into the war with the Allies that they may have their part and parcel in the settlements , it is recognized ...
... base at Kiao- Chau in the Far East . Now , while Germany is besieged on all sides and Italy and Roumania are preparing to go into the war with the Allies that they may have their part and parcel in the settlements , it is recognized ...
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... base . Indeed , such are the financial straits of Tur- key that a ten per cent tax has been levied upon the property of the people . If you hold property in Turkey and cannot pay ten per cent of the value the authorities have assessed ...
... base . Indeed , such are the financial straits of Tur- key that a ten per cent tax has been levied upon the property of the people . If you hold property in Turkey and cannot pay ten per cent of the value the authorities have assessed ...
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... base is at Boulogne . Here is the center of her Red Cross work , with a dozen big hospital ships commandeered from the P. & O. line and bearing distinctive stripes around their hulls . One hospital ship is set apart for the wounded ...
... base is at Boulogne . Here is the center of her Red Cross work , with a dozen big hospital ships commandeered from the P. & O. line and bearing distinctive stripes around their hulls . One hospital ship is set apart for the wounded ...
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alliance Allies American arms army Asia Minor Audacious Austria Bagdad railroad Balkan Bank of England Bank of France bankers battle Belgian Belgium Berlin Bismarck British Empire Bulgaria casualties cent Channel CHAPTER cities coast commercial copper credits declared defense demands Emperor English Europe European expanded fighting French front gasolene German Emperor German spies gium gold reserve greatest guns hand hate horses income tax individual industry issue Italy Joffre khaki uniform Kitchener Kluck land Liége loan London ment Mesopotamia military million Monroe Doctrine months naval never ocean officers orders paper Paris peace permitted plans political pounds pounds sterling present Kaiser progress protective tariff Reichsbank response Russia second Balkan war Servia shell ship soldier submarine supplies tion to-day trade treaties Triple Entente troops Turkey United warfare warships wounded
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Página vi - If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam. A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
Página vi - And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given ; Her sights and sounds ; dreams happy as her day ; And laughter, learnt of friends ; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Página 23 - When you meet the foe you will defeat him. No quarter will be given, no prisoners will be taken. Let all who fall into your hands be at your mercy.. .Just as the Huns a thousand years ago, under the leadership of...
Página 23 - Attila, gained a reputation by virtue of which they still live in historical tradition, so may the name of Germany become known in such a manner in China that no Chinese will ever again even dare to look askance at a German.
Página v - t were come — Now, while each bourse and shop and mill is dumb, And arsenals and dockyards hum — Now all complete, supreme, That vast, Satanic dream ! — Each field were trampled, soaked, Each stream dyed, choked, Each leaguered city and blockaded port Made famine's sport ; The empty wave Made reeling...
Página 183 - We have but one and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one We have one foe and one alone — England!
Página 183 - To the Day!" Whose glass this fate? They had all but a single hate. Who was thus known? They had one foe and one alone — ENGLAND! Take you the folk of the Earth in pay, With bars of gold your ramparts lay, Bedeck the ocean with bow on bow, Ye reckon well, but not well enough now. French and Russian they matter not, A blow for a blow, a shot for a shot, We fight the battle with bronze and steel, And the time that is coming Peace will seal. You...
Página vi - ... and palace equal know, In civilization's suicide — What served thereby, what satisfied? For justice, freedom, right, what wrought? Naught! Save, after the great cataclysm, perhap On the world's shaken map New lines, more near or far, Binding to king or czar; In festering hate Some newly vassalled state; And passion, lust and pride, made satiate; And just a trace Of lingering smile on Satan's face!
Página 174 - American motor car companies, all American tobacco interests, and, in fact, all foreign companies are boycotted, or barred, or worked against throughout Germany. Placards in shop windows say, ' Don't buy foreign goods. Keep the money in Germany.