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Identifier: literarydigesthi09hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as first the duty of the American Government toprotest strongly against British misuse of neutral flags.Basing its argument on the doctrine of necessity, theFrankfurter Zeitung strongly indorsed the submarineblockade and complained that neutral countries had sub-mitted themselves to English dictation. From the greatcommercial port of Hamburg came the strongest indorse-ment of the new naval policy. The Hamhurger Nachrichtenannounced: At last, what we have so long hoped for is being done. Eng-land must be struck at the most vulnerable point, and must feelthat she can no longer comfortably stand aside and rob and cheatand practise every brutality while she is repiesented on theEuropean continent by mercenaries, the scum of her people, whoplay football with German bread and expose to their criminaltools of murder the valuable lives of our healthy, gifted, andeducated youth, the springtime hope for the future of our race.Our people are struggling and offering sacrifices for the Emperor 240
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GRAND ADMIK \,. \ . i.\ TIKIITZThe administrative creator of Germanys modern navy, often called Tirpitsthe Eternal because, while others wont out of office, he never did. In abooli of memoirs, published in July. 1919, Tirpitz accused Bethmann-Ilollweg of precipitating the war throush a policy of playing the game single-handed IX. SUBMARINES AND WAR-ZONE DECREES and the Empire, for its existence and its future, and thesethings can not be sacrificed to moral superstitions. What havewe achieved in six months with our noble-spirited conduct of war?—calumnies and hatred and bitter hostility everywhere. Was it recklessness or desperation that had moved GreatBritain and Germany to imperil American neutrality inthese efforts to starve each other into submission? Didtheir course represent the usual impulse of the war-spiritto break through the fence of international law, or wasGermany actually facing a crisis in her food situation andwas Great Britain in real danger of isolation by Germansub

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