Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been recommended by the University Department of Military Science for the Third Series of Officers' Training Camps. These men will be allowed to take the special set of mid-year examinations which will extend from December 26 to January 2, and will probably receive orders from the War Department telling them just when and where to report for duty. It is expected that the University's representation will be stationed at Yaphank...
...hundred and ninety men are to be taken from 73 colleges and 20 military schools as well as from the Regular Army, the National Guard and the National Army. All graduates and undergraduates of these institutions, if selected to attend the camps, must enlist for the duration of the war. If at the end of the course they are not recommended for commissions, they will be required to remain in service and finish their enlistment. While students they will receive the pay and allowance of first-class privates, amounting to about $30 per month, plus food, clothing and quarters...
...War broke out with Germany in April, 1917, because of German attacks upon the property and lives of Americans on the high seas, and within our own country. Behind these immediate and intolerable grievances was the purpose of the United States to join with other nations in preventing the growth of a prodigious world power, which has shown its arrogant domination by brutal treatment of weak powers...
Germany is nominally one of four allies; but practically is the moving force in Bulgaria and Turkey, and particularly in Austria. No decision as to foreign relations or military movements is made by the Empire of Austria. That it has not declared war on the United States is not because of love for this country, but because those are the orders from Berlin. It is impossible to consider Austria at present as an independent nation, capable of forming relations according to its own judgment with other powers...
This applies also to Bulgaria and Turkey, but in two respects they are on a different footing from Austria. They are not actually garrisoned by German armies, and they have not exercised any acts of war toward this country. Bulgaria maintains its own army and form of government; so far as known, neither Bulgarian nor Turkish troops are operating north of the Danube. Turkey is evidently under German control, and the armies are undoubtedly directed by German officers. Nevertheless, both Bulgaria and Turkey have respected American lives and interests; many of the leading Bulgarian statesmen and officers were educated...