Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...August, 1914, and he saw the progress attained by years of unremitting effort lost through the stubborn resistance of the Ulstermen and the excesses of the Sinn Fein revolutionists. Unembittered by these reverses, Redmond from the first counselled complete Irish co-operation in the British Empire's fight against Prussian militarism, and maintained to the end his uncompromising hostility toward the pro-German factions in Ireland...
...demoralized and subject to more conflicting forces than the existing one in Russia. The renewal of hostilities by the German forces complicates an almost hopeless chaos of internal revolution. Not content with the sowing of his propaganda in a country face to face with a great political crisis, the Prussian advances to seize those races which one by one are separating themselves from Bolshevik domination. Germany dares to take upon itself the protection of a new democracy, the Ukraine. A striking anomaly...
...only way to get peace is to win the war," declared James M. Beck, former assistant attorney-general under Roosevelt, before an audience of 2,500 college men on Saturday night in the Boston Opera House. "Unless the Prussian is beaten and knows that he is beaten, all the dead will have died in vain, for even if a treaty or peace could be secured at this time that would be wholly favorable to the Allies, but which left the Hohenzollern on his throne, as soon as Germany had recuperated its strength, as Prussia did under Frederick the Great...
...verily believe that it would be better for civilization to end in the Ragnarok, or 'twilight of the gods,' like ancient Valhalla, than for it to continue 'half slave and half free' with a Prussian Kaiser as the dominating influence...
When Grand Admiral von Tirpitz says that "for real security we (Germans) should have, besides Flanders and Ant-werp, Calais and Boulogne," he defines Prussian theory of freedom of the seas...