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, February 12, 2013

Likes German Attitude.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 12, 1913:
Spokesman for Churchill Expresses Pleasure Over Naval Discussions.
LONDON, Feb. 11.— A general feeling of satisfaction with the friendly tone which has characterized recent German discussions of naval affairs was expressed in Commons to-day by Thomas J. Macnamara, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, speaking on behalf of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty.
The matter came up on an inquiry addressed to Churchill as to the recent statement by Admiral von Tirpitz, German Minister of Marine. Mr. Macnamara did not pursue the subject, saying that he preferred to wait for the introduction of the naval estimates before dealing more fully with the matter.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Likes German Attitude.

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