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.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Costa Rica Clings to Sovereignty.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 23, 1913:
By Cable to the Editor of The New York Times.
    SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, July 22. — My position as President obliges me to absolute reserve of my judgment respecting international questions that do not concern Costa Rica. I have therefore no rights that permit me to express any opinions in regard to what is convenient for Nicaragua.
    As to ourselves in this little republic, "conceived in liberty," according to the phrase of Lincoln, to live orderly and for the purpose of maintaining and fostering, more and more, all kinds of cordial relations with the United States, we do not need to sacrifice any of the attributes of our sovereignty.

        RICARDO JIMINEZ,
        President of Costa Rica.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Costa Rica Clings to Sovereignty.

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