Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appalling explosion at Halifax today will help the American people to realize that they are at war, and that such events of terror, directly or indirectly due to military movements, may indeed take place...
...Bryan is at present engaged in a lecture tour of the Northeast, speaking on both war questions and on the subject of prohibition. He is the fourth of the series of distinguished speakers who have appeared before the Graduate students this term. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former ambassador to the Netherlands, Ian Hay Beith, British soldier-author, and the Hon. Albert Halstead, ex-consul-general to Austria, have given the previous talks, all of which have had for a subject some phase of the world conflict...
...Bryan came to Boston last Monday, and has been delivering speeches in and around the city. On the evening of his arrival he addressed a large audience in Tremont Temple on "The Vital Question," a subject including the factors of allied victory in the war and the settlement of the terms of peace after the conclusion of the conflict. As a speaker Mr. Bryan ranks among the highest in the country. His "Cross of Gold Speech" in the Democratic National Convention before the campaign of 1896 immediately brought him into prominence, and the spotlight of public opinion has been centered...
...cause of it. We do not know whether or not the hand of an enemy had anything to do with it. But it is evident that the loss is terrific; that thousands must suffer as well as mourn; and that the chief sally-port of the new world's war against the Central Empires of the old world has been virtually destroyed. And whether or not they had any hand in this calamity, how fiercely our enemies will rejoice at the sorrow and destruction that have befallen...
...order of the Secretary of War...