The Audacious WarHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 192 páginas |
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... turned his giant presses to capture the German sentiment . He spent tens of thousands of dollars upon Ger- man cable news , devoting at times a whole page GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES 19 to cable presentations from 18 THE AUDACIOUS WAR.
... turned his giant presses to capture the German sentiment . He spent tens of thousands of dollars upon Ger- man cable news , devoting at times a whole page GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES 19 to cable presentations from 18 THE AUDACIOUS WAR.
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... turning his back upon the scene , he was able to protest that he was not responsible . Yet the published correspondence from every capital in Europe now shows that the German Emperor fenced off every attempt to get Austria to mod- ify ...
... turning his back upon the scene , he was able to protest that he was not responsible . Yet the published correspondence from every capital in Europe now shows that the German Emperor fenced off every attempt to get Austria to mod- ify ...
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... turned to France to see if they might " do something . " An English lady with small feet and delicate hands responded to the spirit of the hour , left her English home and her servants , and went to the hospital front in France . She ...
... turned to France to see if they might " do something . " An English lady with small feet and delicate hands responded to the spirit of the hour , left her English home and her servants , and went to the hospital front in France . She ...
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... she extended her hand across the sea . Then she turned about and steadily built up her gold reserve in the Bank of France , from $ 500,000,000 to above $ 800,000,000 , although her people were not ex- panding FRENCH FINANCE.
... she extended her hand across the sea . Then she turned about and steadily built up her gold reserve in the Bank of France , from $ 500,000,000 to above $ 800,000,000 , although her people were not ex- panding FRENCH FINANCE.
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... turned on the lights , illuminated the streets , closed up the museums and galleries , buried their art and sent the Venus de Milo on a walk to some storage vault along with the banks ' reserve gold . London's museums and picture ...
... turned on the lights , illuminated the streets , closed up the museums and galleries , buried their art and sent the Venus de Milo on a walk to some storage vault along with the banks ' reserve gold . London's museums and picture ...
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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.