A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Monday, May 20, 2013

No Mobilizing Of War Ships.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 20, 1913:
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt Answers the War Rumors.
Special to The New York Times.
    BOSTON, May 19.— During a visit to this city to-day, when he visited the Navy Yard, F. D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, said in response to a question:
    "We are not mobilizing our ships to fight Japan."
    Mr. Roosevelt paid a visit to the British cruiser Melpomene while here.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, May 20, 2013

No Mobilizing Of War Ships.

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