Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Paris in 1870 found that lots of things it had thought rather nasty could become quite edible. And according to rumors floating through the key-hole of Germany's barred door, the standards of what go to make a square meal have become much rounded in that nation of full living...
...nation of the inexhaustible soil, are threatened with a change of our table d'hote. The Government, which is occasionally paternal, in growing anxiety that its fledglings will not be fed, has combed the deep and traditionally seven seas for new foods. In result we are advised to eat dogfish, shark, whale, and other "meats." By eating the dogfish, shark, whale and marine monsters which are neither fish nor flesh, it is expected that no one will starve...
...need to call upon our boys nor our old men to defend the nation or to gain victory. The knowledge rests with us that should such bitter need arise, as we may trust it never will, they will come, not in the tumultuous desire for excitement, but in the strong desire for service, equally brave...
...will make a great difference twenty years from now. Unless the unforseen happens, within the next year, many courageous young men will be called on to pay the last tribute to their nation. Other men who, not from weakness, but by chance, having fought well and side by side with those who perish, are left unscathed by war, will have the knowledge to elevate their spirits that they shunned in now way injury or destruction because of fear, or weakness soaring into dishonor. But what of those men who now fearfully and silently, are contemplating how they may avoid...
...Third, maintain that such a course of action at this time constitutes a patriotic service to the nation...