Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once again the French Cabinet has been forced to resign by an adverse vote of the Chamber of Deputies. At the very moment when complete unity of the Allies is more than ever necessary, the plan for an Inter-Allied War Council is jeopardised by the action of the French legislation. The much vaunted "sacred union" of political parties has been unable to withstand the strain of three years of hostilities, for the conflict of political groups is raging as bitterly as before the war, and personal prejudice against ministers, regardless of their qualifications, has more than once determined their...
Since the outbreak of war in 1914, Dr. Mott has visited all five battle fronts, Western, Eastern, Italian, Balkan, and Mesopotamian. He has viewed the fighting forces of all the belligerent European nations except Turkey, in action, and has visited Germany three times during the war; because of his high position in international affairs he has had opportunities seldom enjoyed of analyzing the moving forces and actual conditions of the Central Powers as well as of the Allies...
...infrequent in the past months. It may eventually prove a cloud with a silver lining if the newly formed Allied War Committee, which will have supreme authority on all the fronts, succeeds in combining the disconnected activities of the many allied armies into one efficient and effective plan of action; if the particular aims of each nation are subordinated to the greater end--the complete defeat of the Hohenzollerns...
...watched its progress carefully since the beginning. In the summer of 1914 he enlisted in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and spent six months of that fall and winter training at Aldershot, England. Soon afterwards, his regiment was sent to France, where they went into action among "the first hundred thousand...
...other hand we may feel proud of the behavior of the troops in this first action. The official "communique" says that the men were worthy of American military traditions. We may let the Germans gloat and fly their banners on Unter den Linden; they will hear more from the "North Americans...