Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wait till those who are entrusted with the destinies of your country call on you to contribute it. By so doing, in the first place, you will be carrying out the wishes of your country. Certain men have been assigned the heavy task of organizing the resources of the nation for this tremendous struggle. They know where men are to be found, and what are each man's qualifications and abilities. Your names, your worth, your possibilities are known. When you are needed, you will be called. Every month, every week, the War Department says. "We need so many...
Lastly, this is a good opportunity for you to apply to yourselves that strict discipline which is the first duty of a soldier. Your nation asks you to stay, when you would like to go: a sacrifice of your personal inclinations. I come back, you see, again and again, to the idea that I never tire of repeating...
...career of David Lloyd George as a war Premier of Great Britain has been a stormy one. Founded upon the ruins of the discarded partisan system, his cabinet, a highly centralized war council representing, in theory at least, all political elements of the nation, has seen a trying period in English development. It has had to face the problems of directing a great war; it has had brought before it internal problems of social and economic reorganization; and it has had to contend with questions of race and empire whose seriousness cannot be overestimated. Under such a condition of affairs...
...half-century of unprecedented expansion and growth in wealth, we have reached a material prosperity unequalled in history. We may be thankful at such a time as this that American development has kept pace with the increase in our national needs. The Civil War strained northern finances almost to a breaking-point. It is the source of our strength that the far greater demands of the present can be met by the America of today. Billions are tremendous drains on any nation and involve the necessity of every economy and saving. But billions we have in America, every cent...
Forget the University quota; forget your city's quota; forget your state's quota; remember only the national quota. At the time of going to press the indications are that there is yet a margin between the nation's subscription to the Liberty Loan and the minimum quota demanded by the national government. That margin must be made up, whether by North or South, East or West. It will be little help to America's cause that Harvard University, or the State of Massachusetts, or the First Federal Reserve District exceed or double their allotments if the Berlin and Munich...