The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, British, French, German, and Others, Svazek 10Francis Whiting Halsey Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1920 This collection is a general military and diplomatic history of the First World War, from June 1914 to May 1920. Military affairs are the foremost issue, with political and diplomatic events relevant to the war intertwined. The work includes short biographies of important military leaders. |
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... French gunboat ; the Leipzig had coaled in San Francisco on August 17 , and the Dresden was in Honolulu about the same time . There were several British , French , and Japanese warships in the Pacific , and yet , altho the Leipzig ...
... French gunboat ; the Leipzig had coaled in San Francisco on August 17 , and the Dresden was in Honolulu about the same time . There were several British , French , and Japanese warships in the Pacific , and yet , altho the Leipzig ...
Strana 41
... French priva- teersman of over a hundred years before , whose Confiance , his swiftest and rakiest craft , was generally heard of where least expected . After reaping a harvest of merchantmen , Surcouf's vessel unaccountably disappeared ...
... French priva- teersman of over a hundred years before , whose Confiance , his swiftest and rakiest craft , was generally heard of where least expected . After reaping a harvest of merchantmen , Surcouf's vessel unaccountably disappeared ...
Strana 90
... French , it was largely due to Allenby that one of the remnants of the British army was saved from destruction . Allenby was afterward in the thick of fighting on the Western Front , where he had opportunities for distinction . In 1917 ...
... French , it was largely due to Allenby that one of the remnants of the British army was saved from destruction . Allenby was afterward in the thick of fighting on the Western Front , where he had opportunities for distinction . In 1917 ...
Strana 102
... French army in Lorraine , when , impatient for a decision , they threw themselves against the Grand Couronné . Entire batteries were sacrificed in the customary German method , but the Grand Couronné stood firm . The French , to the ...
... French army in Lorraine , when , impatient for a decision , they threw themselves against the Grand Couronné . Entire batteries were sacrificed in the customary German method , but the Grand Couronné stood firm . The French , to the ...
Strana 104
... French Army Corps , made up for the greater part of men from Lille and Flanders . On August 21 and 22 , he was hold- ing bridges on the Meuse at no great distance above Namur , but it was not until the evening of the 23d that his troops ...
... French Army Corps , made up for the greater part of men from Lille and Flanders . On August 21 and 22 , he was hold- ing bridges on the Meuse at no great distance above Namur , but it was not until the evening of the 23d that his troops ...
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Strana 398 - In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another...
Strana 402 - Should any Member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13 or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other Members of the League, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations...
Strana 403 - Certain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone. The wishes of these communities must be a principal consideration in the selection of the Mandatory.
Strana 404 - ... make provision to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League.
Strana 323 - 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...
Strana 412 - The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
Strana 399 - Except where otherwise expressly provided in this Covenant or by the terms of the present Treaty, decisions at any meeting of the Assembly or of the Council shall require the agreement of all the Members of the League represented at the meeting.
Strana 322 - ... 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. 8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done...
Strana 322 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Strana 405 - ... and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League. In this...