Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods of Fighting, Travelling and Living; of the Armies, Navies and Air Fleets; of the Personalities, Politics and Geography of the Warring CountriesJulius Washington Muller Review of Reviews Company, 1918 - 372 σελίδες |
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Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods ... Πλήρης προβολή - 1918 |
Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods ... Πλήρης προβολή - 1918 |
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A.-There actual aeroplane Allies American April armistice armored army artillery attack August Austria Austria-Hungary battle battleships began Belgian Belgium belligerent Britain British Brussels Bulgaria Camp cent Central Powers coal coast command Congress corps cost cruisers Dardanelles December declared destroyers Dobrudja draft dreadnaughts Empire enemy England ernment Europe exports February fighting figures fire fleet force foreign France Franco-Prussian War French front German Government Germany's industry Italian Italy January Japan July June King land loans machine guns March marine ment merchant miles military million Minister months nations naval Navy neutral North Sea October officers peace Petrograd political population ports pounds President prisoners Q.-Does Q.-Were Q.-What Reichstag rifle Roumania Russia sent September Serbia shell ships Socialist soldiers square miles submarine sunk supply territory tion tonnage tons torpedo treaty troops Turkey Ukraine United United Kingdom vessels warships zemstvos
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 32 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
Σελίδα 35 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Σελίδα 20 - 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. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind.
Σελίδα 20 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Σελίδα 31 - ... determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and...
Σελίδα 30 - 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.
Σελίδα 31 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Σελίδα 158 - 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.
Σελίδα 289 - ... (c) Such other individuals, or body or class of individuals, as may be natives, citizens, or subjects of any nation which is an ally of a nation with which the United States is at war, other than citizens of the United States, wherever resident or wherever doing business, as the President, if he shall find the safety of the United States or the successful prosecution of the war shall so require, may, by proclamation, include within the term
Σελίδα 152 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget— lest we forget!