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Title: The Great war
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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German rivers of the north, so as toprovide a more convenient inland water route for Germancommerce to the Near East. But the results of the great campaign of 1915 just asnaturally stimulated the desire of the opposite extremistsfor the negotiation of an immediate peace on terms honor-able for all parties. Since the Socialists had only been in-duced to support the war at the beginning by the assurancethat it was a struggle for self-defense against the aggressiveforce of Russian despotism, they naturally tended to becomerestive as soon as the Slav peril had been destroyed. Signs of a growing spirit of insubordination appeared asearly as the third war-session of the Reichstag, convokedon March 10, 1915, when Herr Haase pleaded for alasting peace that will not contain within it the germs ofnew entanglements and dissensions, and Liebknecht withone companion voted against the budget. The National Executive of the Social Democratic partyissued a manifesto on June 23, 1915, calling upon the
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c V. V • Ci be s ■^ ^ ~— Q b m ^ a C h rt <: 0\ b ■§, c 0 -J Internal Evolution of Belligerents 209 government to open immediate peace negotiations. Thismanifesto was published in Vorwarfs, which was tempo-rarily suppressed as a punishment for its temerity. Anotherstatement of the Socialists in August of the same year pro-claimed, as the suitable conditions for a lasting peace, theintegrity of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, andTurkey, the freedom of the seas, international arbitration,and the promotion of international free trade. The government identified itself neither with the dicta-torial Chauvinism of the Junkers and military set nor withthe incoherent, but deep, instinctive longing of the massesfor international conciliation. But its attitude in respect tothe war aims was often vague, enigmatical, or vacillating.At the opening of the fifth war-session of the Reichstagon August 19th, the Chancellor, von Bethmann-Hollweg,reviewed once more the causes of the war, d

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