Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...capture of the Winter Palace, and the flight of Kerensky. This is one of the few single events of the war that seems irretrievable, that offers no ray of hope or consolation. Even should Kerensky succeed in rallying the Army to his support and reestablishing a new government in Moscow, it would be impossible to be of active assistance to the Allies with the revolutionary focus at Petrograd outflanking the Russian positions...
...along the Western Front, interest centers on the movements near Riga and the threat at Petrograd. Whenever a foe plans to invade Russia, one wonders if history will repeat itself. Is there any possibility that the Teutons will be caught in another Poltava or in a second Retreat from Moscow? Some seem to think this likely...
...Baker, J. P. Beebe, D. Cameron, W. H. Campbell, J. Cimerlatt, S. A. Cohen, R. L. Cudd, R. E. Ellinger, H. I. Fitz., E. V. French, W. C. Gray, J. Hammond, J. H. Hanford, B. M. Hulley, F. H. Kennedy, S. E. Mahoney, E. G. Mulligan, K. Morse, J. Moscow, C. D. Pinney, H. F. Puck, P. H. Stephnes, Y. L. Tang, F. C. Turner, G. C. Williams, N. I. White, S. Wetzler, E. B. Witte, C. N. Wolfe, V. H. Willard...
...short one, it would be a foolish waste for them to leave college now and then never see service even in the ranks. You must consider how infinitely more important officers are than privates. Napoleon fell largely because he lost all his veterans in the retreat from Moscow and there were no experienced men to lead the troops. It is estimated that 60 per cent. of the French soldiers are brave or cowardly just in proportion as their commander shows these emotions. You must not spoil good material for officers by enlisting aimlessly now, or until special circumstances arise...
...investigate," or does it confine its investigations purely to anti-war speeches? A short while ago Count Tolstoi, the son of the world famous author, was prevented by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia from delivering a speech in the precincts of that university which the censor at Moscow had seen fit to pass as harmless, even for Russia! Is that doctrine of of- fering public insult to a leading citizen of one of our possible allies to be left uninvestigated? It is not so long ago that the Harvard authorities prevented the widow of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington from speaking...