Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly clippings from newspapers, giving not so much items of news, as expressions of opinion, in leading articles, reports of speeches, sermons, and lectures, reviews, etc. A young Harvard graduate is about to be appointed at the Committee's office...
...front might conceivably mean disaster. Having once pierced through, the outflanking and rolling up of their lines might result in the destruction of all opposition. France would be at the invaders' feet. Before long, Paris and all remaining French territory would be in the hands of German forces. The war would be over. The Allies, though still supreme on the sea, would be unable to attack the enemy at any point, and so, baffled, must acknowledge defeat. Temporary as this would be, for the world can never see a victorious Germany as long as men exist to bear the fight...
...killed in action last week while serving with the artillery of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He was sent overseas immediately after completing his course at the first Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg. He is the first officer from the present Junior class to be killed in the war...
...German offensive upon a fifty-mile front, active fighting in the West has again become a grim reality. The Central Powers, victorious at every other point, seem now to match their strength with the enemy in the hope of striking a decisive blow toward a favorable termination of the war. Yet the general military situation makes it very possible that the present movement is but a feint in the concealment of another motive...
...conceivable that Germany will be guided by any scruples concerning the rights of the small Slavic peoples. On the contrary, the traditional imperial policy indicates the desirability and need of striking while the iron is hot, and devoting all energy to a complete success in the Eastern theatre of war. Moreover, from a military point of view, the softness of the ground and the great strength of the Allied lines portend little success for an offensive in Flanders...