Identifier: literarydigesthi01hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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to them as a way-station on the route toSouth America and South Africa, while in France therewas a feeling that Germany, by threatening force, hadobliged France to give up part of her African possessionsfor a mere recognition by Germany of the title of Franceto what she already possest. This agreement closed a newcrisis in Morocco. Agadir was, however, a real crisis, if indeed it did not 132 CAUSES OF THE GREATER CONFLICT bring Europe to the verge of war. A Yellow Book issuedby the French Government in December, 1914, indicated hownear the brink the great nations had been. In Germany-people at large had practically made up their minds for thegreat sacrifice. War was believed to have been averted onlybecause the Kaiser and the Imperial Government had main-tained a reasonable attitude, steadily insisting on a desirefor peace, if peace could be made consistent with justice forGermany. Germany had accepted a clear minimum in settle-ment of her claims. She chained alono^ the Kameruns about
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THE JULIUS TUWER AT SPANDAl Where Germany kept her war chest stored. Spandau is nine miles west of Berlin, and strongly fortified 230,000 square kilometers of land and a million people. Shealso secured in Africa access to the sea without passingthrough French territory, but she yielded at the sametime practically all her political interests in Morocco, andacknowledged the paramount standing of France therein.It could not have been said that any sort of victory hadbeen won for Germany. The settlement was at best a drawnbattle, with perhaps equal honors on both sides. The Ger-man people, however, placed responsibility for the outcomeon the Kaiser and his Ministers. By one newspaper the 133 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES Kaiser was called William the Poltroon. The nationwas obviously for the moment more warlike than the Govern-ment. It was afterward generally believed that the Kaisersincerely did not want war at that time, that the ImperialChancellor and the Eoreign Minister did not want war, butha

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