Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Daur. S.T.M. '14, killed at Courtral, Belgium. November 20, 1914, while fighting in the German Army...
...omission in making no mention of the Jewish people. In our opinion the two words, Jew and Jerusalem, are closely associated. We are well aware of the promise of the British Empire. But ahead of both these comes the fact that Jerusalem has been wrested from Turkish rule and German domination. This was the fact that was uppermost in our minds when the news came that Jerusalem had fallen. At present we are thinking more of how to defeat Germany than anything else. The capture of this city was a spark of encouragement that we were making progress...
...students of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, who compose a committee which is endeavoring to bring about the breaking off of relations with the German Empire, greet you as an eminent citizen of the United States and the noble and loyal friend of Argentina, whose connection with your Fatherland you are intensifying for the most pure and disinterested reasons...
...broke out with Germany in April, 1917, because of German attacks upon the property and lives of Americans on the high seas, and within our own country. Behind these immediate and intolerable grievances was the purpose of the United States to join with other nations in preventing the growth of a prodigious world power, which has shown its arrogant domination by brutal treatment of weak powers...
This applies also to Bulgaria and Turkey, but in two respects they are on a different footing from Austria. They are not actually garrisoned by German armies, and they have not exercised any acts of war toward this country. Bulgaria maintains its own army and form of government; so far as known, neither Bulgarian nor Turkish troops are operating north of the Danube. Turkey is evidently under German control, and the armies are undoubtedly directed by German officers. Nevertheless, both Bulgaria and Turkey have respected American lives and interests; many of the leading Bulgarian statesmen and officers were educated...