Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Before the beginning of the war he spent 21 years in India as a member of the India Civil Service, during which time he held many offices. At various times he acted as secretary to the government of India, private secretary to Lord Curzon, Chief of Staff to the present King and Queen when they visited India in 1905, and a member of the Council of India...
...most important thing that the country can learn at this time touching the world situation is the fact, the actual fact, the stern fact, that we are engaged in war. We are so far removed from the conflict, there is so little suffering about us, so little that speaks of war, that the mind can hardly grasp the fact that the Nation is mobilizing with tremendous rapidity its entire strength for the supreme effort ahead of it, and that those in authority realize that this strength in the fullest is going to be needed. The people...
...announcement has ever been made by university authorities that those who complete the instruction offered in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will be immediately commissioned in the Field Artillery division of the Officers' Reserve Corps. To the best of our knowledge, nothing of the sort is contemplated by the War Department. I also call to your attention the fact that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps work is a four-year course for all men who do not reach their 21st birthday, and consequently the draft age, before their senior year...
...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...
...experience we have learned that in time of peace it is well to prepare for war. Let us not have to learn by our own mistakes that in time of war we should prepare for peace as well as war...