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.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

A Big-Stick Pacificist.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 12, 1913:
Ex-Premier Bourgeois Says Armaments Will Abolish War.
PARIS, May 11.— At the eighth National Peace Congress, which was inaugurated here to-day, a letter was received from ex-Premier Leon Bourgeois, who was unable to attend.
"Remembering the disasters of 1870 and 1871," M. Bourgeois wrote, "I do not hesitate to vote for three years' military service, which is now indispensable, in view of the German increase. Be pacificists, but strong! wait! and soon the armament's burden itself will cause an anti-war revolution of public opinion."

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, May 12, 2013

A Big-Stick Pacificist.

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