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...Sometown in the U. S. in 1914. learning that Archduke Ferdinand has been assassinated at Sarajevo, asks whether an archduke is like a prince. News of the mobilization of 17,000,000 Europeans is like the story of a distant railway wreck, a fire in a house far away. Then one day Joe Kovacs gets a letter with a foreign stamp, from Austria, and his wife brings it to him at work. Joe Kovacs' class has been called, his fatherland has ordered him to arms, and Joe must go. At the Plaza Theatre that night, sitting with his neighbors...
...roar of the big guns is muffled at first, gradually grows louder in Sometown. A $5 bill will feed a Belgian baby for a month. It is not Sometown's fight. But in a rathskeller, the song Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier doesn't sound right either. Mr. Averill didn't raise his boy to be a soldier, but when Walter joins the Lafayette Escadrille, somehow Mr. Averill and Sometown are proud of him. Even the Bensinger girl, whose father teaches at the local college and wants his native Germany...
Then U-boat warfare, the sinking of the Lusitania, makes Sometown feel angry frustration, determined to do something. But Congressman John Lawton says there is only one thing to be done, and no one wants to go to war. As 1915 falls flaming into 1916, this is true, but Sometowns over the U. S. look toward thin-faced, worried Woodrow Wilson, about to marry Mrs. Gait. When Charles Evans Hughes quits the Supreme Court to run against Wilson, and almost wins, a period in history is already drawing to a close. Sometown's main street sees its first Preparedness...
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