Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

The Daily Chronicle (London) says the Cabinet is considering responding to German use of poison gas. “[W]e must fight gases with gases.” ...

British soldiers are selling captured German helmets to collectors at high prices, but haven’t been able to get many, dead Germans and the...

The responses of Pres. Wilson and former Pres. Roosevelt to the German u-boat attack on the oil tanker Gulflight illustrate their respectiv...

Glasgow clergy enlist in a special clergymen’s corps. Headline of the Day -100:  The Hamburger Nachrichten is exercised over the s...

The American oil tanker Gulflight is torpedoed off the Scilly Islands on its way from Texas to France. 3 dead, including the captain (from...

Headline of the Day -100:  The warning was that ad taken out by the German embassy in various newspapers suggesting that Americans n...

British Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George wants to deal with the alleged problem of lost productivity in the munitions indust...

The International Congress of Women at the Hague passes resolutions in favor of nations solving their differences with arbitration rather ...

The Prussian military newspaper Kreuz Zeitung says it was the Allies’ “behavior” that forced Germany to resort to poison gas. And the Fra...

1968 after the Martin Luther King assassination, NY Mayor John Lindsay walked the streets of Harlem. He is credited for helpign prevent th...

The US asks Turkey to please stop massacring Armenians. The British War Office is asking the women of Britain to make gas masks for the ...

Headline of the Day -100: The Morning Post (UK) is already calling for Winston Churchill’s hide for the mishandled Dardanelles ca...

Germany admits to using poison gas, although only, in the words of the Frankfurter Zeitung , “as a reply to the treacherous projectiles of...

Bernhard Dernburg, a former German minister of colonies who has been in New York making semi-official but deniable statements about Germany...

It’s the 100th anniversary of the genocide that dare not speak its name. Or at least whose name American presidents dare not speak. Thee Ar...

Headline of the Day -100: I’m not sure what the point of lying about it is. If your poison gas is effective, which admittedly it ...

Britain stops all shipping between the UK and the Netherlands for unspecified reasons that certainly have nothing to do with preventing de...

The California Legislature rejects a bill to abolish the death penalty (retaining it only for prisoners who assault guards or other prisone...

Austria is rushing troops to its border with Italy. Just in case. A few days ago, German zeppelins flew over Britain, got a little lost, ...

The Supreme Court denies Leo Frank’s habeas appeal, ruling 7-2 that his rights were not violated by his not being in court when the verdict...