{"id":111794,"date":"2017-11-28T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:13:56","slug":"what-they-said-august-1914-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/what-they-said-august-1914-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What They Said – August 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the outbreak of the Great War, August 1914.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The lamps are going out over all <\/span>Europe<\/span><\/b>: we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Lord Grey (British Statesman) \u2013 Remark made on <\/span>3rd<\/sup> August 1914<\/span>, on the eve of war.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We draw the sword with a clear conscience and with clean hands.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Wilhelm II (Emperor of <\/span>Germany<\/span>) \u2013 Speech, <\/span>Berlin<\/span>, <\/span>4th<\/sup> August 1914<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Wilhelm II \u2013 Said to troops leaving for the front, August 1914.<\/span><\/div>\n
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When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hung it in the maidservants\u2019 lavatory; it was her one combative action.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Evelyn Waugh (British Novelist).<\/span><\/div>\n
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Your Country Needs You.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
British recruiting poster.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Good-bye Piccadilly, <\/span>Farewell Leicester Square<\/span>; It\u2019s a long, long way to <\/span>Tipperary<\/span><\/b>, but my hearts right there.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Harry Williams (British Songwriter)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His Hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

Rupert Brooke (British Poet)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the outbreak of the Great War, August 1914. The lamps are going out over all Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. Lord Grey (British Statesman) \u2013 Remark made on 3rd August 1914, on the eve of war. We draw the sword with a clear conscience and with clean hands. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}