 | 1918 - 734 pages
...No prisoners will I>e taken." I cannot offer this prayer for General Bernhardi, who in 1911 wrote: "France must be so completely crushed that she can never again come across our path." I cannot offer this prayer for the German officers who, complying with the spirit of instructions given... | |
 | Literature - 1919 - 922 pages
...that no serious German statesman would trouble to follow." Of one other thing Bernhardi was very sure. "In one way or another we must square our account with France [his italics], if we wish for a free hand in our international policy. . . . France must be so crushed... | |
 | United States - 1918 - 732 pages
...No prisoners will be taken." I cannot offer this prayer for General Bernhardi, who in 1911 wrote : " France must be so completely crushed that she can never again come across our path." I cannot offer this prayer for the German officers who, complying with the spirit of instructions given... | |
 | Friedrich von Bernhardi - Germany - 1912 - 318 pages
...complications elsewhere. In one way or another we must square out account with France if we wish for a free 1 hand in our international policy. This is the first...completely crushed that she can never again come across our pathy v ' ' ', Further, we must contrive every means of strengthening the political power of our allies.... | |
 | Friedrich von Bernhardi - History - 1912 - 326 pages
...as we find ourselves involved in complications elsewhere. In one way or another we , must square out account with France if we wish for a free hand in...peaceful overtures, the matter must be settled by fore of arms. France must be so completely crushed that \ she can never again come across our path.... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 874 pages
...passage which describes her fate: — "In one way or another ice must square our account with France it we wish for a free hand in our international policy....crushed that she can never again come across our path." It is not said how Germany could permanently extinguish France, and It is difficult to think it out... | |
 | William II (German Emperor) - World War, 1914-1918 - 1914 - 296 pages
...us on a favourable * occasion, so soon as we find ourselves involved in A complications elsewhere. In one way or another we must square our account with...crushed that she can never again come across our path. Further, we must contrive every means of strengthening the political power of our allies. We have already... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Germany - 1914 - 56 pages
...France, once conquered, is to be very harshly treated. Here is the passage which describes her fate:— "In one way or another we must square our account...crushed that she can never again come across our path." It is not said how Germany could permanently extinguish France, and it is difficult to think it out.... | |
 | Stanley Solomon Sheip, Alfred Bingham - World War, 1914-1918 - 1914 - 366 pages
...France, once conquered, is to be very harshly treated. Here is the passage which describes her fate: "In one way or another we must square our account...crushed that she can never again come across our path." It is not said how Germany could permanently extinguish France, 'and it is diff1cult to think it out.... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1914 - 696 pages
...simply for the purpose of gaining time and deceiving opponents. One is startled to read (p. 106) that "France must be so completely crushed that she can never again come across our path" ; that "interference" with another state depends "not on international right, but solely on power and... | |
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In one way or another we must square our account with France if we wish for a free hand in our international policy. This is the first and foremost condition of a sound German policy, and since the hostility of France once for all cannot be removed by... 
