War Aims & Peace Ideals: Selections in Prose & Verse, Illustrating the Aspirations of the Modern WorldTucker Brooke, Henry Seidel Canby Yale University Press, 1919 - 264 頁 |
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Allies Alsace Alsace-Lorraine arms army attack Austria Austria-Hungary become Belgian Belgium blood Britain British Empire British realms cause civilization colonies conflict crime danger declared defend democracy dominion duty economic EMILE CAMMAERTS enemy England Europe evil feel fight force France freedom French German German Empire Germany's glory Gorizia Government hand heart honor human ideal Imperial individual industrialism interests Italian Italy justice Kossovo land League League of Nations liberty Liège LIEUTENANT OF ARTILLERY lives Macedonia mankind Maurice Barrès means ment militarism military moral nations neighbors neutrality never once patriotism peace political possible present Prilep principle race Russia sacrifice Serbia Serbs Slav soldiers soul spirit struggle suffering territory thee things thou thought thousand tion to-day treaty Trieste Triple Entente United victory voice whole wish words
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第 235 頁 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
第 107 頁 - IN Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead; short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
第 225 頁 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it...
第 226 頁 - I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well-conceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation, because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits, which will now be necessary, entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people, so far as we may, against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast...
第 237 頁 - XIII. An independent Polish State should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant. XIV. A general association of nations must be formed, under specific covenants, for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great...
第 235 頁 - I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants. III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment...
第 236 頁 - Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.
第 236 頁 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
第 231 頁 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts,— for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
第 215 頁 - The efforts directed towards the abolition of war must not only be termed foolish, but absolutely immoral, and must be stigmatized as unworthy of the human race.