Word: britain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should not allow our partiality for the cause of the Entente so to obscure our vision as to induce us to accept as valid wholly sophistical distinctions based on mere surface factors. Critics of Germany's submarine warfare constantly stress the fact that, whereas Great Britain's Orders in Council result merely in financial loss to the United States, Germany's warfare, on the other hand, is aimed at the lives of American citizens. Let us examine, for a moment, this contention. Germany declares, to be sure, that the lives of Americans entering the recently established war zone are thereby...
...Congressmen in response to dictatorial party pressure brought to bear upon them? In thus warning our citizens off belligerent vessels our Government would be acting not only in conformity to the practice of Sweden during this war, but also in harmony with the precedent established by Great Britain herself during the Russo-Japanese war, when the Admiralty disavowed responsibility for the lives of citizens who should take passage on the vessels of either belligerent...
...First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in the Living Room of the Union on Monday, February 12. In accordance with the purpose of his visit to this country as lecturing representative of England in the present war, Captain Beith will speak on some phase of the struggle from Great Britain's point of view, drawing from his wide experience in the Allied ranks as a member of the Tenth Argyl and Sutherland and Highlanders...
...many of our own hundred million and odd people prefer the "touch-and-go" method in reading to the permanent joys of possession? The question is not idle in a land vastly richer in popular libraries than any of the countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were...
...course, that the matter is in the field of contention. All the speakers mentioned in the list above apparently were considered not propagandists. Neither was Captain Ian Hay Beith, whom the CRIMSON accurately referred to as having "been sent to this country by the British Government to explain Britain's part in the war," who was permitted to speak in Sanders Theatre on December 11, 1916 (the meeting open to the public, tickets one dollar, the proceeds to go to the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee). My sympathies in the war happen to be with the Allies, yet I fail...