Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cablegrams announce that the most elaborate welcome yet given to any American Red Cross section arriving in London was that accorded the physicians and nurses of the Harvard Medical Unit which recently reached England. The welcome was in the form of a luncheon given by Sir Thomas Lipton at that gentleman's country house...
...without question and at once, according to the records. As the percentage of those who would go to war at the first call from a spirit of adventure is only about one-tenth or one-fifteenth of those who will willingly go when called upon (as the experience of England has shown) then we may count on four or six million men whose love of country, unlike their love of adventure, is superior to selfish motives of physical immunity...
...camp at Fort Myer, Va., will be open for applicants from the New England States, Fort McPherson, Ga., will take care of New York city and contiguous territory, and also certain of the other southern states. The greater part of New York state, however, as well as most of Pennsylvania, and three more southern states, have been allotted Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Other camps will be located at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.; Fort Logan H. Root, Ark.; Fort Leon Springs, Tex.; Fort Riley, Kansas; and the Presidio, San Francisco, California...
...recent raids on England by German aerial forces have inspired in the attacked country a cry for retaliation. Let the German unprotected towns be shattered by the bombs of English raiders, and German women and children die as have the English, by that blind destruction against which there is no defence...
Fortunately those who control England's war policy have too much human wisdom to attempt a course in plan and achievement so vain. The law of requital is the law of the feud, whereby hate for the enemy is born and fostered in generation after generation, till the sum of accumulated hate will end in equal destruction. It is the law of the mob, which strives to repay by brutal sin the commission of a brutal sin. The talonic justice that demands suffering for the offender equal to that which he has inflicted is an outworn creed, fit only...