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... interest of making my contentions clear to others not so unhappily familiar with him , I may unconsciously have overstated . For this reason , in dealing with the imme- diate causes of the war , in my desire to be fair I have treated ...
... interest of making my contentions clear to others not so unhappily familiar with him , I may unconsciously have overstated . For this reason , in dealing with the imme- diate causes of the war , in my desire to be fair I have treated ...
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... interest and principle ; to Prussia's governing class the idea of democracy by which and in which we live as a people , is the corrosive poison which destroys great states . The German ideas on the mission of Germany , on the ...
... interest and principle ; to Prussia's governing class the idea of democracy by which and in which we live as a people , is the corrosive poison which destroys great states . The German ideas on the mission of Germany , on the ...
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... interest of equality . The German type of mind is anachronistic , feudal . While all other modern European na- tions were liberalizing themselves , Germany remained in spirit what she had been . In political 32 WHY WE WENT TO WAR.
... interest of equality . The German type of mind is anachronistic , feudal . While all other modern European na- tions were liberalizing themselves , Germany remained in spirit what she had been . In political 32 WHY WE WENT TO WAR.
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... interests among the great landowners and capitalists . In the course of years they have put through more measures than all the political parties and all the parliamentary subdivisions of Germany taken together . ' They were busily ...
... interests among the great landowners and capitalists . In the course of years they have put through more measures than all the political parties and all the parliamentary subdivisions of Germany taken together . ' They were busily ...
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... interest of its war estab- lishment , the situation may well be considered threatening . The explanations offered in the Reichstag were to the effect that recent events in the Bal- kans had altered the balance of power in Eu- rope ...
... interest of its war estab- lishment , the situation may well be considered threatening . The explanations offered in the Reichstag were to the effect that recent events in the Bal- kans had altered the balance of power in Eu- rope ...
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Page 289 - 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.
Page 334 - 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.
Page 113 - One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of counsel, our peace within and without, our industries and our commerce.
Page 287 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making: We will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated.
Page 330 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Page 330 - Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated, occupied territories restored, Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea, and the relations of the several Balkan States to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality...
Page 137 - 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.
Page 350 - ... whether it was justice or dominion and the execution of their own will upon the other nations of the world that the German leaders were seeking. They have answered — answered in unmistakable terms. They have avowed that it was not justice, but dominion and the unhindered execution of their own will. The avowal has not come from Germany's statesmen. It has come from her military leaders, who are her real rulers. Her statesmen have said that they wished peace, and were ready to discuss its terms...
Page 328 - What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation...
Page 11 - Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars — and the short peace more than the long.