THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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Post by Niner » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:21 pm

A month before this advertising ploy, the manager of the Coca Cola Company in Atlanta was in court over a woman who was trying to set him up for blackmail over a alleged sexual adventure. But... he came out on top and the women admitted it was a set up in open court. Coca Cola wants to wave the flag and telling its clients not to go selling any unpatriotic substitute soda if there is a shortage.

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:00 pm

"Greatest in the history of the world".... and for another hundred years?

Well, if you want to sell newspapers this is a good line. Who was going to debate it? Besides, half a million in presumed German losses is nothing to sneeze at . Funny though.... the story doesn't mention the allies losses. Of course defenders usually take fewer losses than attackers....everybody knew that..... something long ago learned regarding the fact that firing from a trench against an attacker in the open was a plus for the trench guys. If it weren't universally known WWI wouldn't be a trench war.

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:00 am

Brought "practically to a halt" is not so true in the next days news story. The meat grinder continues to grind.

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US is ready to follow Foch as the supreme French commander leading the allied forces. US forces have apparently not been the focus of a major German attack .....yet. At least the casualty lists have been pretty small as released to the press and nothing like what the French and the British have taken.
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Post by Niner » Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:03 pm

Since Congress declared war on Germany exactly a year before, you can imagine how many minutes the court was going to take to issue an opinion in this case.

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Post by Niner » Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:48 pm

Watch out for those subversive Germans! Free speech doesn't protect Americans of German ancestry from criticizing the President or the war if Congress can pass a bill to arrest them when they speak negatively. Because Teddy Roosevelt is against the bill a Washington paper is taking a stance in opposition to Teddy and, unlike Teddy, think that Freedom of Speech is a Constitutional concept that can have an exception when it comes to the President or the war. True red blooded Americans can criticize the President and can be clearly free to do so but if those evil supporters of German do... well it will all be obvious of course what their motive is...if their last name is German.
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Post by Niner » Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:19 am

President makes a speech and watches a parade of troops a hundred years ago. The speech was to justify the war and whip up some enthusiasm for the next bond drive and the war in general. He starts off awarding the US intentions with the mantle of dispassionate justice seeker and ends with a we'll kill the bastards cheer leading statement. Obviously the kind of speech that was appropriate in the judgement of the listeners.

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Post by Niner » Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:19 pm

Meanwhile the US doesn't know it yet but Wilson will be sending US troops to Siberia to guard the Northern Russian rail line and lots of war material. The Japanese were seen as a potential threat to a nascent Russia as well as a sub set of revolutionaries from Russia who were destabilizing the new Russian government. The Japanese had already made overtures to the Allies to undertake what the US eventually did. There was also the possibility of German moves to feed on war stores, much of it sent by the US, in an unstable Russia. The troop movement wouldn't come to fruition for another four months in August of 1918.

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