Author : John Strong Perry Tatlock
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ISBN 13 : 9781330565445
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)
Book Synopsis Why America Fights Germany (Cantonment by : John Strong Perry Tatlock
Download or read book Why America Fights Germany (Cantonment written by John Strong Perry Tatlock and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Why America Fights Germany (Cantonment: Edition) America is a peaceable nation. We believe in the principle of "live and let live." We respect other nations rights, wish them prosperity, and envy them nothing. We have vast territory and undeveloped resources, enough to occupy our minds and hands for generations without meddling with other people's concerns. We believe that the peace and happiness of mankind will be promoted by self-government for all, by allowing the population of each civilized country to govern itself. Through almost our whole history we have stood for democracy and peace. We have protected China from robbery and war on the part of more greedy nations, and have stood the strongest friend of the new Chinese republic. In 1896 we stood the friend of Venezuela in her controversy with Great Britain, and prevented war. For years we have even allowed our own citizens to be wronged in Mexico rather than make war on our neighbor republic. Consequently, we are now trusted as the big brother of all the republics in the New World. When we departed from our peaceful policy in 1898, and made war on Spain, it was in order to stop intolerable oppression at our very door, in Cuba. We then gave and have guarded the independence of Cuba, and only took the Philippine Islands in order to save them from falling to some less disinterested nation, and in order to educate their people for independence later. Thus we have always worked for peace, and for the justice to all which is the only sure way to maintain peace. Well, then, why did we enter the Great European War? Why was it our affair? If we love peace, why do we make war? Did we drift in without knowing what we were doing, did we get in by some kind of "fluke"? We are in the war because we had to go in unless we were entirely blind to our own honor and safety, and to the future happiness of the whole world. Germany has attacked us. What finally forced us into the war was the unlimited submarine warfare started by Germany on the 1st of February, 1917. Before this, many American ships had been sunk by German war on us submarines, and hundreds of American lives had been lost on these and other ships. This was contrary to all humanity and even all law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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