A Brief History of the Great War"Select bibliography": pages 431-436. |
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Aisne Allies Alsace-Lorraine American Anglo-French armed Arras artillery attack August Austria-Hungary Austrian Austro-German autocracy Bagdad Balkan battle Belgian Belgium Bolsheviki Bolshevist Britain British Bulgaria captured Central Empires command conquest Constituent Assembly constitute coöperation Council Dardanelles December declared defeat defense democracy democratic drive Dual Monarchy Duma East East Prussia eastern economic Entente Powers Europe forces foreign France French frontier Galicia Gallipoli German armies German General Staff German Government Germany's Gorizia Greece Greek guns Hindenburg Hungary Isonzo Italian Italy July Kerensky League League of Nations Mackensen March Marne ment Meuse military minister Mittel-Europa munitions naval neutral November October offensive Ottoman Empire peace Petrograd political premier Provisional Government railway reënforcements Revolution revolutionary river Rumania Russian armies Salonica SCALE OF MILES September Serbia social Socialists soldiers Somme Soviets submarine warfare territory Teutonic tion treaty Trentino troops Tsar Turkey Turkish Turks United Verdun victory Western Front
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Page 198 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government...
Page 396 - ... make provision to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League.
Page 394 - To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.
Page 388 - The Assembly may deal at its meetings with any matter within the sphere of action of the League or affecting the peace of the world.
Page 394 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Page 392 - If the dispute is not thus settled, the Council either unanimously or by a majority vote shall make and publish a report containing a statement of the facts of the dispute and the recommendations which are deemed just and proper in regard thereto.
Page 286 - There is no other course open to us but to fight it out. Every position must be held to the last man : there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end. " The safety of our homes and the freedom of mankind depend alike upon the conduct of each one of us at this critical moment...
Page 197 - 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 191 - Mere agreements may not make peace secure. It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of any nation now engaged or any alliance hitherto formed or projected that no nation, no probable combination of nations could face or withstand it. If the peace presently to be made is to endure, it must be a peace made secure by the organized major force of mankind.
Page 378 - Pacific islands, which, owing to the sparseness of their population or their small size or their remoteness from the centers of civilization or their geographical contiguity to the territory of the mandatory and other circumstances, can be best administered under the laws of the mandatory as integral portions of its territory subject to the safeguards above mentioned in the interests of the indigenous population.