A Short History of the Great War: Dealing Particularly with Its Military and Diplomatic Aspects and the Part Played in it by the United StatesG. P. Putnam's sons, 1920 - 410 من الصفحات |
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advance Aisne Allied American April Arras artillery attack August Austria-Hungary Austrian Austro-Hungarian Balkan Bapaume battle cruisers began Belgian Britain British British First Army Bulgaria campaign captured cavalry centre Corps counter-attacks December defence divisions east eastern enemy Entente envelopment evacuated Falkenhayn farther February Fifth Army fighting fleet Foch forces France Galicia German armies German General Staff Gorizia Greece guns Haig held High Command Hindenburg infantry Isonzo Italian Italy January Joffre July June Lassigny left wing Ludendorff Mackensen March Marne Meuse miles military naval neutral north-east north-west northern November numbers occupied October offensive operation Péronne Piave Poland positions Prilep Przemysl pushed railroad reached rear retreat Ridge River Rumania Russian salient Salonica Second Army sector September Serbia side Soissons Somme south-east south-west southern submarine territory Teuton Third Army thousand prisoners tion Trentino troops Turkey Turkish Turks U-boat United Valley Verdun Vistula warfare Western Front Ypres
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الصفحة 249 - 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 governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
الصفحة 388 - ... an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent 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...
الصفحة 390 - An independent Polish State should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea...
الصفحة 388 - 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.
الصفحة 389 - Rumania, 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...
الصفحة 390 - First, the impartial justice meted out must involve no discrimination between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just.
الصفحة 389 - 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. 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
الصفحة 238 - In accordance with the general principles of visit and search and destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law, such vessels, both within and without the area declared as naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives, unless these ships attempt to escape or offer resistance.
الصفحة 388 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.
الصفحة 389 - Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.