Word: baltic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...offensives to relieve the pressure on her frontier provinces. To declare that Russia is now ready to cast the burden of the war on their shoulders will create a most painful impression both in London and Paris. Next he criticizes the British fleet for not rushing headlong into the Baltic, now that the Germans are operating there, knowing well the utter impossibility of such an undertaking; incidentally the British might well ask what the Russan fleet is doing at the present moment...
...year of war with, unfortunately, visions of more to come. Yet we can only have one World Series each year. It is not unnatural, then, that the injury to McCarthy's arm has caused more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state of affairs, but we know better. We are living in a period of universal sadness and a tonic like the World Series...
...Germany" should not blind us to a realization of our acquiescence, voluntary or enforced, in the orders of the British Admiralty, whereby commerce and passenger traffic between Germany and the United States are completely cut off--and this in spite of the ineffectiveness of the Entente blockade along the Baltic coast of Germany. Again, how shall we condone the affront to our national honor represented by the constant rifling of our mails, in violation of one of the most sacred principles of international...
Liverpool, July 30-Aug. 10 f. Liverpool, Aug. 10, "Baltic...