The Times History of the War: v. 1-22 (pts. 1-273).The Times, 1918 |
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advance aeroplanes Africa Ailette Allies Army artillery assault attack August Baltic barrage battalions batteries battle Battle of Verdun Bezonvaux Bolshevists bombardment bombs Bourlon British Cambrai Canadian Canal captured Chemin-des-Dames coast colonies command convoy Copse Corps counter-attack Cross cruiser defences destroyers Division east Empire enemy enemy's Farm fighting flank Fleet Flesquières forces French front garrison German Gheluvelt Government Gravenstafel ground Guillaumat Gulf of Riga guns heavy heights Hill Houthulst infantry island Laffaux large number machine machine-gun fire Malmaison ment Meuse miles military natives naval Navy night October offensive officers Official photograph operations Passchendaele Pelman Pelman Course Petrograd pill-boxes Poelcappelle Polygon Wood position prisoners raids railway redoubt Regiment ridge rifle road Russian Samogneux September shells ships side Sixt von Armin slopes Spur submarine success tanks territory torpedo transport Treaty troops Ukraine Ukrainian Vauxaillon Veldhoek Verdun vessels village western wounded yards Ypres Zonnebeke
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 333 - We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days 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...
الصفحة 36 - 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 unselfish sympathy.
الصفحة 334 - Government. We must face the facts as they are and act upon them without sentiment in this stern business. The Government of Austria-Hungary is not acting upon its own initiative or in response to the wishes and feelings of its own peoples, but as the instrument of another nation. We must meet its force with our own and regard the Central Powers as but one.
الصفحة 331 - The war was begun by the military masters of Germany, who proved to be also the masters of Austria-Hungary. These men have never regarded nations as peoples, men, women, and children of like blood and frame as themselves, for whom governments existed and in whom governments had their life. They have regarded them merely as serviceable organizations which they could by force or intrigue bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They have regarded the smaller states, in particular, and the peoples who...
الصفحة 331 - Their purpose has long been avowed. The statesmen of other nations, to whom that purpose was incredible, paid little attention; regarded what German professors expounded in their classrooms and German writers set forth to the world as the goal of German policy a* rather the dream of minds detached from practical affairs, as preposterous private conceptions of German destiny...
الصفحة 331 - Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very center of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia...
الصفحة 333 - German people and that they are not our enemies. They did not originate or desire this hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it ; and we are vaguely conscious that we are fighting their cause, as they will some day see it, as well as our own. They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us.
الصفحة 333 - Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest. Such designs can be successfully worked out only under cover and where no one has the right to ask questions.
الصفحة 334 - Austria-Hungary is for the time being not her own mistress but simply the vassal of the German Government. We must face the facts as they are and act upon them without sentiment in this stern business.
الصفحة 331 - ... saying, and were glad to go forward unmolested, filling the thrones of Balkan states with German princes, putting German officers at the service of Turkey to drill her armies...