Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...especially where there is personal danger; and yet to do so may not be the greatest service he can render to the country. Men who are responsible for the conduct of the war, who see the question in the large, who are thinking of the human resources of the nation as a whole, seem to be generally of opinion that college students will be in the end more profitable if they continue their education until they are of age, and then use that education for the benefit of the army (or in civil life if the war is over). Officers...
...moment, reputations greater than that of any professional school at are stake. The country needs army officers and every intelligent man who wants to become one should be given all encouragement. Least of all should he be penalized for his desire to be of the utmost service to the nation. Boston Transcript...
That this war is a competition in morale is admitted by all statesmen. That moral strength will decide the final and supreme battle is likewise acknowledged. Hence, if American morale has been strengthened, the nation has more reason to be thankful than it has over the knowledge that nearly two million men are now under arms...
...defeat of Germany, Prussianism is doomed. America believes now, as never before, that the fate of humanity rests with her. Such an ideal is too noble to perish. And America is to be truly thankful, not merely because of her large Army and Navy, but primarily because the nation realizes that that ideal shall not perish...
...demand the right of way on all canals and railroads for the transportation not only of civilian supplies but of war supplies amounts to a denial of Dutch neutrality. Control of transit is a vital function of every nation. To submit to foreign dictation is to abandon sovereignty. Moreover, the obligation of neutrality demands that Holland refuse any step which will be of direct gain to the enemy in its prosecution of the war. This side of the affair is clear, the laws of nationality and neutrality make the acceptance of the proposal impossible...