Word: fatherland
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...that the battleship's usefulness has passed its maximum point. A serious inquiry on the advisability of continuing the construction of mammoth cruisers has been made by the British Council of imperial Defense. Admiral von Scheer, who commanded the German fleet at Jutland, has expressed the view of the Fatherland that the surrender of its surface vessels contains little excuse for regret. Secretary Daniels has ordered for the near future a definite test of the battleship's vulnerability which may have an important effect in determining our naval policy. Public opinion everywhere seems adverse to pursuing the race for such...
That nation, however, still continues, undiscouraged, along the path of unapologetic self-aggrandisement. General von Bernhardi, the author of the ultra-militaristic "Germany and the Next War," which was published in 1911, has just completed another three-volume book in which he defies the foes of the fatherland and nerves his countrymen "to prepare in defeat for the victories of the future." He warns the world that though Germany may be forced to remain peaceful for a time, she will buckle on her armor again as soon as her manpower and strength return. With the nation's leaders preaching...
...bespeak your cooperation in stamping out this attempt of British propagandists to bring about trouble between my country and your Fatherland through continued stage representations of the Japanese Emperor as a clown, the Japanese women as congenital idiots, and Japanese women as congenital idiots, and Japanese governmental institutions as the machinations of a phantasmagoric intoxicated by alcoholic stimulants. Respectfully, S. HARIMOTO...
...confidence which exists between students in countries widely separated. It is difficult for American university men, unfamiliar as they are with any form of external oppression, to appreciate fully the part that their brothers-in-learning across the sea, play in securing freedom for many an oppressed fatherland...
...quickly decide whether the masterpiece is written in the guttural snarl of the Teuton or the musical rhythm of France. This done, the worst is over. If the work belongs to the French school translate firently, using love as the fundamental; if German, emphasize the wonders of the Fatherland, whistle the Lorelei and depart, thanking the instructor for listening...