In traveling about the city that day, Dodd was struck anew by the extraordinary German penchant for Christmas display. He saw Christmas trees everywhere, in every public square and every window. One m...
It could be done, because it had to be done
It had swept him, he said, into a dream from which I did not recover for months.
It instructed Germany’s ambassador in Mexico to offer Mexican president Venustiano Carranza an alliance, to take effect if the new submarine campaign drew America into the war. Make war together, Zimm...
Its 300 stokers, trimmers, and firemen, working 100 per shift, would shovel 1,000 tons of coal a day into its 192 furnaces to heat its 25 boilers and generate enough superheated steam to spin the imme...
Lusitania, after a Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula that occupied roughly the same ground as modern-day Portugal. The inhabitants were warlike, and the Romans conquered them with great difficul...
Nowhere have I had such lovely friends as in Germany, she wrote. Looking back on it all is like seeing someone you love go mad—and do horrible things.
Outside the White House, Wilson’s many notes to Germany and their replies became the target of wry humor, as when one editor wrote: Dear Kaiser: In spite of previous correspondence on the subject anot...
Such peaceful intervals never lasted long.
That un-American institution, the trades union, has developed its un-American principle of curtailing or abolishing the personal freedom of the individual in a new direction, that of seeking, as far a...
The Death of Boris,’ by Mussorgsky?
The article called Dodd a small, dry, nervous, pedantic man … whose appearance at diplomatic and social functions inevitably called forth yawning boredom.
The disaster had an important secondary effect: because two of the cruisers had stopped to help survivors of the initial attack and thus made themselves easy targets, the Admiralty issued orders forbi...
The fair awakened America to beauty and as such was a necessary passage that laid the foundation for men like Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. For Burnham personally the fair had been...
The most important effect of all this was to leave the determination as to which ships were to be spared, which to be sunk, to the discretion of individual U-boat commanders. Thus a lone submarine cap...
The thing that weighed on him most, however, was the irrationality of the world in which he now found himself. To some extent he was a prisoner of his own training. As a historian, he had come to view...
The world, he said, must face the sad fact that in an age when international cooperation should be the keyword, nations are farther apart than ever.
There existed at this time a widespread perception that Hitler's government could not possible endure. Germany's military power was limited... And Hitler himself had begun to seem like a more temperat...
Torpedoes were expensive, and heavy. Each cost up to $ 5,000— over $ 100,000 today— and weighed over three thousand pounds, twice the weight of a Ford Model T.
Undersecretary of State Robert Lansing, number two man in the State Department, tried to put this phenomenon into words in a private memorandum. It is difficult, if not impossible, for us here in the...
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