Friday, August 24, 2018

Today -100: August 24, 1918: Of criminal military systems, and u-boats


British Foreign Under-Secretary Lord Robert Cecil says Germany is totally unfit ever to have colonies, unlike, ahem. He also says a League of Nations can only succeed if there’s victory first and if Germany acknowledges “that her whole military system is criminal.”

The German gov is now permitting newspapers to stop claiming that there are only a few US soldiers in Europe. They’re offsetting this move towards honesty by exaggerating the extent of u-boat activity off the US’s eastern coast. Evidently the subs are totally ready to bombard every coastal city.


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