Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There has never been a treaty more radical in its remodelling of international society. The Peace of Westphalia gave the coup de grace to the idea of a united Europe in the Holy Roman Empire and inaugurated an age of sovereign territorial states. The Peace of Utrecht inaugurated an age of commercial and colonial rivalry by express recognition of the principle of the balance of power. The Treaty of Vienna sought to establish a concert of Europe, but with recognition of dynastic interests, it ignored the rising tide of nationalism and democracy. It remained for the present treaty to recognize...
This speech what is needed at this time: it resources the Allies of our firmness of purpose at a moment when such assurance comes as a bright lining to the cloud of Russian confusion; it also acts as a "coup de grace" to the pacifistic element of the country. What we must beware of now is doing more talking than acting. We have to spend this year about three-quarters as much money as the entire amount expended in the last one hundred and twenty years. This means saving on the useless things, it means buying only those articles which...
...Germany was surprised by the entry of Rumania into the war was made clear by the removal of von Falkenhayn; whether von Hindenburg can rectify the error of his predecessor is doubtful. Yet it would seem already that there was little military foresight to accompany the Allies' successful political coup in the Balkans...