 We keep our word when we have given it, but we do not give it without solid practical reasons, and we do not set up to be international Don Quixotes, ready at all times to redress wrongs which do us no hurt. .... Even had Germany not invaded Belgium,...  What is Back of the War - Стр. 339авторы: Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1915 - Страниц: 430Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1915 - Страниц: 796
...France and Russia, even if Germany had scrupulously respected the rights of her small neighbors. . . . Why did we guarantee the neutrality of Belgium? For...hurt. . . . Even had Germany not invaded Belgium, honor and interest would have united us with France. We had refused, it is true, to give her or Russia... | |
 | Norman Angell - 1915 - Страниц: 406
...We keep our word when we have given it, but we do not give it without solid practical reasons, and we do not set up to be international Don Quixotes,...honour and interest would have united us with France. We joined the Triple Entente because we realised, however late in the day, that the time of "splendid... | |
 | Norman Angell - 1915 - Страниц: 382
...months later (March 8) we find the Times, as embodying British governmental opinion, proclaiming: ". . . we do not set up to be international Don Quixotes,...at all times to redress wrongs which do us no hurt. . . . We joined the Triple Entente because we realised, however late in the day, that the time of 'splendid... | |
 | Frederick Franklin Schrader - 1915 - Страниц: 120
...We keep our word when we have given it, but we do not give it without solidj practical reasons, and we do not set up to be international Don Quixotes,...at all times to redress wrongs which do us no hurt. "Herr von Bethmann Hollweg is quite right. Even had Germany not invaded Belgium, honor and interest... | |
 | Francis Neilson - 1915 - Страниц: 410
...ultimately provided by Belgium." Now the Times, that mirror of Foreign Office reflections, tells us " even had Germany not invaded Belgium, honour and interest would have united us with France." The " imperious reason of self-interest " was our motive in all connected with the Treaty of 1839.... | |
 | Francis Neilson, British statesman - 1915 - Страниц: 428
...ultimately provided by Belgium." Now the Times, that mirror of Foreign Office reflections, tells us " even had Germany not invaded Belgium, honour and interest would have united us with France." The " imperious reason of self-interest " was our motive in all connected with the Treaty of 1839.... | |
 | Archibald A. Warden - 1916 - Страниц: 216
...We keep our word when we have given it, but we do not give it without solid practical reasons, and we do not set up to be international Don Quixotes,...honour and interest would have united us with France. We joined the Triple Entente because we realised, however late in the day, that the time of "splendid... | |
 | 1916 - Страниц: 640
...March 9, 1915, this admission was made with a ruthless frankness which cannot surprise the initiated : "We do not set up to be international Don Quixotes,...us no hurt. Even had Germany not invaded Belgium, honor and interest would have united us with France." Soon thereafter Lord Haldane, the one-time pro-German... | |
 | Norman Angell - 1916 - Страниц: 154
...having declared that but for the invasion of Belgium England would not have entered the war, says: "... we do not set up to be international Don Quixotes,...at all times to redress wrongs which do us no hurt. . . . We joined the Triple Entente because we realized, however late in the day, that the time of 'splendid... | |
 | 1916 - Страниц: 548
..."we keep our word when we have given it, but we do not give it without solid practical reasons and we do not set up to be international Don Quixotes,...all times to redress wrongs which do us no hurt." Apart from this attack on England's attitude, and the citation of Bismarck's coup in changing the famous... | |
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