Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whether we put country above right or not, we all want our country to be right, particularly when it is a question of war. Even if one makes one's fatherland monarch of conscience and dictator of action, surely it must be revolting to go killing the enemy when you think he is right. Though all sensible people, as General Wood said, desire peaceful settlement of troubles, yet honest attempts have failed and may fail again. And therefore Plattsburg, the naval cruise, and Harvard's Preparedness Week (with its large bouquets of "easy conscience...
...partisan literature may be divided into two classes, the German American propaganda with which everyone is familiar and which includes such books as "England a Pirate Nation," "England's Perfidy Exposed," and such publications as "The Fatherland," and the regular newspapers of England, Germany, France Italy, and Austria. The most important of these are the London Times the Westminster Gazette, Le Temps, Le Figaro Corriere deila Sera (Milan), Neue Freie Press (Vienna) Neueste Nachrichten (Munich), and the Allgemeinge Zeitung (Berlin). In addition to these papers, which will be filed throughout the war a set of American Notes, published...