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

For Franco-German Amity.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 12, 1913:
Deputies of Both Nations Adopt an Anti-Armament Resolution.
    BERNE, May 11.— Under the Presidency of Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, French and German Parliamentarians to the number of 218, met this evening with the object of improving Franco-German relations.
    A resolution was unanimously adopted repudiating "patriotic excitability" and demanding a decrease of armaments. The resolution continued:
    "The conference warmly supports the proposal of the American Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan, relating to arbitration treaties, and demands that disputes between France and Germany shall be submitted to The Hague Tribunal."
    The fact that only thirty-three Germans were present, compared with 185 French Deputies and Senators, caused some comment.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, May 12, 2013

For Franco-German Amity.

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