Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...worry from a military point of view this battle is of no importance. Lieutenant Morize told us last summer that such a raid is perfectly simple to carry out successfully if one is willing to use up sufficient ammunition. So we need not feel that we have suffered a defeat. Our troops are but human after all and ten Germans are and should be able to overpower one American. We must get the Prussian idea out of our heads, namely, that we are a race of supermen...
Were Italy's allies to blame for Cadorna's terrible defeat on the upper Isonzo? Probably that question will be discussed for a good many years to come. The Italians' own confidence in their military competence may be taken by the British and French writers as an excuse for British, French and American neglect, but it excuses the Allies only in a slight degree. It is true that General Cadorna had been regarded as having established his military competence. Nobody supposed that he would leave the strategically most important portion of his line inadequately defended. But the question of responsibility...
...Italian defeat is momentarily assuming graver proportions. With a hundred thousand prisoners taken, and most of the difficult mountain country already passed, there is a lively danger of the fall of Udine, and with this the capture of the Third Army across the Isonzo. Not since the days of the great German advance of August 1914, have the Allies been confronted with so serious a crisis. For should a catastrophe take place, then the way will lie open for the Germans to seize the rich Lombard plain, capture new ports for submarine bases on the Mediterranean, and even menace France...
...discontented elements in the allied nations will make use of this opportunity to embarrass their governments. The immediate future seems black indeed; only constructive statesmanship of the first order can counter the discouragement and distress. But if the justice and unselfishness of our cause is sufficiently felt, then defeat should serve as a stimulus to greater sacrifices, and eventual success. To give this message, not to Italy alone, but to Germany and Austria as well, is America's mission today...