Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...charge--as a pacifist does in another column--that the possibility of an invasion of the United States is a mere figment of the imagination. According to expert opinion, the present conflict will be over in two years and possibly sooner. Then either the Allies will triumph and the German menace will be permanently overwhelmed, or Germany will triumph and her menace will be a menace thrice increased. In the latter case, the utterances of German civil and military writers, as as well as her past history, teach us what to expect. And even in the event of an Allied...
Today we see the Allies offered 200.000 Abyssinian soldiers, armed by German and Belgian rifles. It is suggested that they be carried by the Japanese navy to Egypt or Mesopotamia to fight for Britain, France and Russia, whose foreign policy in Morocco and Persia has helped to bring this war, in which Germany was tempted to invade Belgium, and Italy to land in Albania! Where under high heaven is there either "national honor, human justice or universal principles of righteousness" in this perfectly Gilbertian complexity of aims, policies and national alignments...
...spite of the fact that men go away to study, Japan is well supplied with modern universities and colleges. There are 5 large and 94 lesser institutions, modeled on the German plan. In Tokio alone there are 112,000 students enrolled in the University of Tokio and in six smaller colleges...
...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...
Cesar Franck was a Belgian composer, who was of German stock, and later become a naturalized Frenchman, upon being appointed professor of the organ at the Paris Conservatoire. "Les Beatitudes," an oratorio composed between 1870 and 1880 was perhaps his greatest work...