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Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War - 1915, The
"Why Isn't The House Cheering?"
Hall Caine
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       _ Then came our Prime Minister's passionate, fiery, yet dignified and even exalted denunciation of the proposal of Germany that we should trade with her in our neutrality by committing treachery to France and Belgium--("To accept your infamous offer would be to cover the glorious name of England with undying shame"); then the announcement of the ultimatum sent by Great Britain to Germany demanding an assurance that the neutrality of Belgium should be respected; and finally that speech of John Redmond's, which, spoken on the very top of the crisis that had threatened to bring a fratricidal war into Ireland, has been, perhaps, the most thrilling and dramatic utterance yet produced by the war. "I tell the Government they may take every British soldier out of Ireland to meet the enemy of the Empire. Ireland's sons will take care of Ireland. The Catholics of the South will stand shoulder to shoulder with their Protestant fellow-countrymen of the North to fight the common foe."
       It was another appeal to the gentlemen in the British nation, and in one moment it swept the bitter waters of the Home Rule crisis out of all sight and memory. I have heard a Cabinet Minister say that, as he listened to Redmond's speech, he was surprised at the silence with which it was received. "Why isn't the House cheering?" he had asked himself. But all at once he had felt his eyes swimming and his throat tightening, and then he had understood. _
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The Invisible Conflict
Pen-Portrait Of The Kaiser
Pen-Portrait Of The Crown Prince
Some Salutary Lessons
Pen-Portrait Of The Archduke Ferdinand
One Of The Oldest, Feeblest, And Least Capable Of Men
"Good God, Man, Do You Mean To Say..."
A German High Priest Of Peace
"We Shall Never Massacre Belgian Women"
The Old German Adam
A Conversation With Lord Roberts
"We'll Fight And Fight Soon"
"He Knows, Doesn't He?"
We Believed It
The Falling Of The Thunderbolt
The Part Chance Played
"Why Isn't The House Cheering?"
The Night Of Our Ultimatum
The Thunderstroke Of Fate
The Morning After
"Your King And Country Need You"
The Part Played By The British Navy
The Part Played By Belgium
What King Albert Did For Kingship
"Why Shouldn't They, Since They Were Englishmen?"
"But Liberty Must Go On, And... England"
The Part Played By France
The Soul Of France
The Motherhood Of France
Five Months After
The Coming Of Winter
Christmas In The Trenches
The Coming Of Spring
Nature Goes Her Own Way
The Soul Of The Man Who Sank The Lusitania
The German Tower Of Babel
The Alien Peril
Hymns Of Hate
The Part Played By Russia
The Shadow Of The Great Death
The Russian Soul
The Russian Moujik Mobilizing
How The Russians Make War
The Part Played By Poland
The Soul Of Poland
The Old Soldier Of Liberty
The Part Played By Italy
How The War Entered Italy
The Italian Soul
The Part Played By The Neutral Nations
The Part Played By The United States
The Thunderclap That Fell On England
A Glimpse Op The King's Son
The Part Played By Woman
The Word Of Woman
The New Scarlet Letter
And... After?
War's Spiritual Compensations
Let Us Pray For Victory