The New York Times Current History: The European War, Volume 16

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New York Times Company, 1918
 

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Page 144 - In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Page 192 - The settlement of every question, whether of territory, of sovereignty, of economic arrangement, or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upon the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other •nation or people which may desire a different settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence or mastery.
Page 193 - The establishment of an organization of peace which shall make it certain that the combined power of free nations will check every invasion of right and serve to make peace and justice the more secure by affording a definite tribunal of opinion to which all must submit and by which every international readjustment that cannot be amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be sanctioned.
Page 192 - The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world ; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence.
Page 463 - Military action is admissible in Russia, as the Government of the United States sees the circumstances, only to help the Czechoslovaks consolidate their forces and get into successful cooperation with their Slavic kinsmen and to steady any efforts at self-government or self-defense in which the Russians themselves may be willing to accept assistance.
Page 496 - Chinese or that the Police Departments of these places shall employ numerous Japanese, so that they may at the same time help to plan for the improvement of the Chinese Police Service. Article 4. China shall purchase from Japan a fixed amount of munitions of war (say 50 per cent, or more) of what is needed by the Chinese Government, or there shall be established in China a Sino-Japanese jointly worked arsenal.
Page 170 - Britain declares that she will neither make, nor join in, any unprovoked attack upon Germany. Aggression upon Germany is not the subject, and forms no part, of any treaty, understanding, or combination to which Britain is now a party, nor will she become a party to anything that has such an object.
Page 509 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Page 535 - Germany must feel that she is beaten. Her defeat must be expressed in terms and facts which will, for all time, deter others from emulating her crime, and will safeguard us against their repetition.
Page 144 - We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. Courtesy of GP Putnam's Sons. From In Flanders Fields and other Poems, by John McCrac. IN FLANDERS FIELDS (An A nswer) BY RW LILLARD DEST ye in peace, ye Flanders dead! * ' The fight that ye so bravely led We've taken up!

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