The New York Times Current History: The European war, 12. köideNew York Times Company, 1917 |
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Page 78 - that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained." The present war is for a large part being waged to settle whether the American or the Prussian standard of morality is valid. The
Page 78 - 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 to use their fellow-men as pawns and tools.
Page 460 - own national safety. Congress declared that a state of war existed between the United States and the Imperial Government of Germany, and this country united with the other liberal nations of the earth to crush the power which sought to erect on the ruins of democracy a world empire greater than that of Greece or Rome or the Caliphs.
Page 5 - We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a new lustre. Once more we shall make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to which we were born, and a new glory shall shine in the face of our people.
Page 80 - we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico : That we shall make war together and together make peace. We shall give general financial support, and It is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory In New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The
Page 77 - denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the areas of the sea which it has proscribed even in the defense of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right to defend.
Page 82 - the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts,
Page 82 - another's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphans : to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 4 - armies, which Germans trained, are serving Germany, certainly not themselves, and the guns of German warships lying in the harbor at Constantinople remind Turkish statesmen every day that they have no choice but to take their orders from Berlin. From Hamburg to the Persian Gulf the net is spread.
Page xvii - take the word of the present rulers of Germany unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting.