Bonsal, Stephen
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The hot fit is over and the satisfaction that we all felt on Armistice night is fading fast. I recall with amazement many of the foolish things we said and did; like millions of others, we gave loose rein to our joy. How we cheered that noble woman who, holding aloft a fasces of Allied banners on the steps of the opera house, sang the “Marseillaise,” “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and “Britannia Rules the Waves.” Our behavior was more decorous as we attended the Mass of Victory and sang the Te…- 128.6 K • Completed
- It was on November the 4th that the Supreme War Council approved the memorandum of the Allies addressed to Wilson, which accepted the Fourteen Points, reserving, however, the right for further discussion on Point Two, and also a clearer definition of the reparation clause. It was in this way, you might say, the war ended. On November the 5th the memorandum reached the President and was sent on by him to the Germans, with a statement to the effect that the actual terms could be obtained from Marshal Foch,…
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- I have been so busy during the past seven days, fetching and carrying, translating notes, condensing interminable conversations, and talking over the Paris telephone (alas, and getting nowhere), that I find I have not been able to make a daily record of the many happenings of this momentous week. How I wish I could resume my familiar role of a detached observer and be relieved of the subordinate but exacting tasks that now fall to my lot. Today, however, there is a breathing spell, and I shall…
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- Colonel Bonsai once told me the story of how this diary came to be written. One winter’s afternoon in Berlin, in 1915, he observed a distressed and bewildered American, a sheet of paper clutched in his hand, trying in vain to get help from passing Germans in finding his way. One after another they ignored him or brushed him aside, and seeing the way open for a good deed, Colonel Bonsai came to the rescue and took charge. He led his compatriot to the one shop in Berlin where English newspapers could…
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- ToArthur Krock,who intercepted this chronicle as it drifted toward the archives of some historical society and who is not afraid to share with his grateful, admiring friend the brickbats its publication may provoke But no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. Macaulay: History of England, Vol. I, Chap.…
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