Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich U. S. slacker now living in Germany, offered to buy the monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires to fly to the U. S. to show that he is no coward, that conscientious objection was his only reason for refusing to fight in the World War...
...Director of Military Operations of the Imperial British General Staff was, from 1915 to 1918, Major General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, who may certainly be assumed to know as much about the War as any man alive. Recently this great soldier and tactician picked up and read two fat volumes† about the War from the sale of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is drawing considerable pelf. As he read. Sir Frederick apparently began to experience a sense of scorn. Here were errors of fact, sloppiness, perversions of truth and everywhere the pink and soapy touch of superficiality...
...Churchill's misstatements of fact are so many and so grave that no historian will in future be able to accept any of his assertions about the War without the most careful checking of references...
...many know, the British Treasury usually remits the "patent fee" to men so distinguished as World War General Baron Byng of Vimy. For example, the Earls of Oxford and Asquith, Balfour, and Birkenhead all received "remissions" of between ?2,255 ($10,813) and ?330 ($1,603), at the time of their creations. In the case of Viscount Byng, it would seem, someone in His Majesty's Treasury has blundered...
...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...