Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opinion is strong on our side of the world that all interests in England have been subordinated to the great interest of winning the war. We are apt to picture intellectual life as stagnant there, while the great universities stand darkened at night against the ravages of piratical "Zeps" and their students are fighting in France...
...which is exemplified in the Harvard Union for American Neutrality and in the speeches of Mr. Bryan is the same which extenuates robbery in order to avoid any unfortunate danger to the persons of the municipal police force. It is the same spirit which came very close to crushing England at the beginning...
According to latest dispatches from England, Allen Shortt 17', previously reported severely wounded and missing, is safe and well in a German prison camp. Shortt, who left college last year to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force, was recently awarded the military cross for exceptional bravery in leading his platoon across "No Man's Land" and capturing practically single-handed a German...
...shown his unusual capacity for observing and analyzing the traits, tendencies and distinguishing peculiarities of Americans and Englishmen in his recent article "Getting Together," in the Outlook. A question frequently asked, he states, is "Why can't you people in England be a bit kinder in your attitude toward us here in America?" In replying, the author invents a dialogue between an American and an Englishman. The Briton extenuates his attitude on the hypothesis that "he that is not for us is against us," and since America has withheld an official endorsement of the Allied cause, the influence is unfavorable...
Germany and England wish to blockade each other. That is none of our business. But when blockade methods are so outrageous that they make shudder all that is decent in us, when these methods kill off a couple of hundred of our citizens among a couple of thousands of neutrals, are we merely to sigh and say it's too bad? What are we to do? But the climax comes with the announcement that such methods are not only to be continued, but to be made worse...