New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 eBook

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.	2
THE CASE FOR GERMANY	2
FORGIVES ENEMIES.	3
SPEECH FROM THE THRONE.	3
TO THE GERMAN ARMY AND NAVY.	4
TO GERMAN WOMEN.	5
JOY IN GLORIOUS VICTORY.	6
FIRST SUCCESSFUL BATTLE.	6
A PRAYER FOR VICTORY.	7
ON VICTORY NEAR METZ.	7
THE SPIRIT OF THE MEN.	7
HIS INDISCRETION WAS “CALCULATED.”	8
WILHELM II.’S LETTER TO LORD TWEEDMOUTH.	12
The Mighty Fate of Europe	16
AS ONE MAN FOR THE KAISER.	17
DECLARES FOR WAR.[01]	17
STATEMENT TO AMERICA.	21
GERMANY’S ARMAMENTS.	23
Austria-Hungary’s Version of the War	25
MANIFESTO.	25
WILL OF WILHELM II. THAT SWUNG THE SWORD.	27
A PURELY DEFENSIVE WAR.	27
A DISCORDANT NOTE.	28
A German Review of the Evidence	28
I.	30
II.	35
III.	44
IV.	48
HOW THE WAR CAME ABOUT.	55
REICHSTAG AND EMPEROR.	60
THE GERMAN MOBILIZATION.	63
ARMY AND NAVY.	66
THE ATTITUDES OF GERMANY’S ENEMIES.	72
LIES ABOUT GERMANY.	76
GERMANY AND THE FOREIGNER.	83
	85
WHO IS TO BE VICTORIOUS?	88
Speculations About Peace, September, 1914	90
WHO BEGAN THE WAR, AND WHY?	93
FIRST WARNINGS OF EUROPE’S PERIL.	93
AUSTRO-SERVIAN CRISIS.	95
A GRAVE SITUATION.	97
RISK OF A CATASTROPHE.	97
OPPOSITION CONCURS.	97
PEACE THE GREAT OBJECT.	98
RUSSIA’S MOBILIZATION.	98
THE GERMAN INVASION.	98
PEACE OF EUROPE CANNOT BE PRESERVED.	100
GERMANY AND BELGIUM.	113
UNHESITATING SUPPORT.	114
CHANGED IRISH FEELING.	114
GREAT BRITAIN’S ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY.	115
PENETRATION OF BELGIAN TERRITORY.	117
Great Britain’s Mobilization	118
KING TO BRITAIN’S FLEET.	118
NAPOLEONISM ONCE AGAIN.	118
PACT OF TRIPLE ENTENTE.	122
DECLARATION.	122
A COUNTERSTROKE.	122
IMPERIAL MESSAGE TO THE BRITISH DOMINIONS.	124
EARL KITCHENER’S SPEECH ON RECRUITS	132
PARLIAMENT PROROGUED.	135
Summons of the Nation to Arms	136
PRIME MINISTER’S LETTER.	137
MR. ASQUITH IN LONDON.	137
GERMANY SPEAKS.	144
GREAT BRITAIN REPLIES.	145
MR. ASQUITH AT EDINBURGH.	146
MR. ASQUITH AT DUBLIN.	152
MR. ASQUITH AT CARDIFF.	159
LORD CURZON’S EXPERIENCE.	165
NOW THE WAR HAS COME.	167
THE GREAT WAR.	175
Teachings of Gen. von Bernhardi	185
Entrance of France Into War	194
NEUTRALIZED STATE RESPECTED.	195
THE NATION IN ARMS.	195
M. PAUL CAMBON TO SIR EDWARD GREY.	201
BEFORE THE MARNE BATTLE.	203
Russia to Her Enemy	204
A MANIFESTO.	205
CZAR AT THE KREMLIN.	206
APPEAL TO THE POLES.	206
THE POLISH RESPONSE.	206
NO ALLIANCE WITH GERMANY	207
POLISH AMERICAN OPINION.	208
RUSSIA AGAINST GERMANY.	208
DUMA’S MESSAGE TO BRITAIN.	209
NEW POLICY AND THE JEWS.	209
WAR ON GERMAN TRADE.	210
FOE TO GERMAN MILITARISM.	211
NOT A QUESTION OF SLAV PREDOMINANCE.	211
RUSSIA’S “LITTLE BROTHER.”	213
Belgo-British Plot Alleged by Germany	220
GREAT BRITAIN’S DENIAL.	222
REPLY TO GREAT BRITAIN.	222
GRAY BOOK’S TESTIMONY.	223
BELGIUM’S ANSWER.	224
WHO BEGAN THE WAR, AND WHY?	226
THE POPE’S DYING WORDS.	226
GERMAN KAISER’S PROTEST.	227
REPLY TO THE KAISER.	227
CHARGE AGAINST GERMANY.	228
M. DELCASSE’S NOTE.	228
THE BELGIAN MISSION.	229
M. DE WIART’S ADDRESS.	229
PRESIDENT WILSON’S REPLY.	231
OFFICIAL SUMMARY.	232
I.	232
II.	234
III.	236
Antwerp, Aug. 31, 1914	236
FURTHER REPORTS.	241
A SUPPLEMENT.	241
GERMANY’S VERSIONS.	245
LOUVAIN’S ART TREASURES.	248
Bombardment of Rheims Cathedral	249
POPE BENEDICT SILENT.	250
ATTACK NOT WILLFUL.	250
THE FRENCH ARE BLAMED	250
THE DAMAGE DONE.	251
WHO BEGAN THE WAR, AND WHY?	255
HOW INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS ARMED AGAINST EACH OTHER.	255
MINISTER JULES GUESDE.	256
COMPOSURE IS NECESSARY.	258
PRESSURE FOR PEACE.	260
HUGO HAASE AT BRUSSELS.	260
HAASE IN THE REICHSTAG.	261
GERMAN SOCIALISTS DIVIDED.	262
SOCIALISTS STILL GERMANS.	262
SOCIALISTS OF ITALY FIRM.	269
BRITISH MANIFESTO.	271
KEIR HARDIE’S QUESTIONS.	272
REPLY TO MINISTER GREY.	273
MR. MACDONALD REPENTS.	274

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