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Page 221 - Once again the Allies declare that no peace is possible so long as they have not secured reparation of violated rights and liberties, recognition of the principle of nationalities, and of the free existence of small States...
Page 128 - ... broken to the burden of his new life, but it does occasionally, through force of circumstances or by reason of the malice of the enemy, come later. That march from Ambarkoj to Janes was the most abominable I have ever known, and I suppose if I live to be an old man with lots of small people round me who want to know what I did in the great war, I shall bore them to death with accounts of it. The personal side of the matter is utterly unimportant, but that small experience does stand as a very...
Page 102 - There is at least one thing to be said in favor of our war in Macedonia — it is possible to look at it.