England, Canada and the Great War
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Louis Georges Desjardins. England, Canada and the Great War
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. Who Are The Guilty Parties?
CHAPTER II. The Persistent Efforts of England in Favour of Peace
CHAPTER III. The Call To Duty In Canada
CHAPTER IV. Recruiting By Voluntary Service
CHAPTER V. Intervention of Nationalism
CHAPTER VI. What Do We Owe England?
CHAPTER VII. Canada Is Not A Sovereign State
CHAPTER VIII. German Illusions
CHAPTER IX. The Nationalist Error
CHAPTER X. Had Canada The Right To Help England?
CHAPTER XI. The Duty of Canada
CHAPTER XII. The Soudanese and South African Wars
CHAPTER XIII. British and German Aspirations Compared
CHAPTER XIV. The Veritable Aims of The Allies
CHAPTER XV. Just And Unjust Wars
CHAPTER XVI "Nationalist" Views Condensed
CHAPTER XVII. Loyal Principles Propounded
CHAPTER XVIII. Imperialism
CHAPTER XIX. American Imperialism
CHAPTER XX. British Imperialism
CHAPTER XXI. The Situations of 1865 and 1900-14 Compared
CHAPTER XXII. British Imperialism Naturally Pacifist
CHAPTER XXIII. British Imperialism and Political Liberty
CHAPTER XXIV. Imperial Federation and "Bourassism"
CHAPTER XXVII. The Future Constitutional Relations of the Empire
CHAPTER XXVIII. Outrages Are No Reasons
CHAPTER XXIX. How Mr. Bourassa Paid His Compliments To The Canadian Army
CHAPTER XXX. Rash Denunciation of Public Men
CHAPTER XXXI. Mr. Bourassa's Dangerous Pacifism
CHAPTER XXXII. A Most Reprehensible Abuse of Sacred Appeals To The Belligerent Nations
CHAPTER XXXIII. A Case For True Statesmanship
CHAPTER XXXIV. After-the-War Military Problem
CHAPTER XXXV. The Intervention of the United States in the War
CHAPTER XXXVI. The Allies – Russia – Japan
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Last Peace Proposals
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Necessary Peace Conditions
CHAPTER XXXIX. CONCLUSION
APPENDIX – A. PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECH
APPENDIX – B. Text of United States Reply to Austria
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Canada, as one of the most important component parts of the British Empire, is going through the crucial ordeal of the great crisis which will determine her destinies jointly with those of the whole world. Instantly put under the strain, four years ago, by the outrageous challenge of Germany to human civilization with the criminal purpose of universal domination, she was fully equal to her unbounded duty. Conscious of her sacred rights, she at once realized that the constitutional liberties which she enjoyed in the freest Empire of all times, could not be more patriotically exercised than for the defence of the sacred cause which united in a gigantic effort England, France and Russia, soon to receive the support of Italy. By an almost unanimous and enthusiastic decision she rallied to the flag around which all the Dependencies of the Empire gathered from the five continents. Never a more inspiring array of loyal subjects, owing allegiance to a Sovereignty, was witnessed in the wide world.
Through the trying days of four full years of the greatest war which ever saddened the life of the human race, Canada has nobly, gloriously, done her duty. Several hundred thousands of her devoted sons have rushed to the front to fight the battle of Liberty, of Right, of Civilization. Thousands of them have heroically given their lives for the triumph of the cause which, if finally triumphant, will brighten with freedom, prosperity, human happiness and undying glory, the destinies of many generations.
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The few lines of the preceding closing paragraph of my letter dedicating the French edition of my book as aforesaid, express my own conception of the true loyalty of a faithful subject of the British Sovereignty, who has the clear vision of the meaning of his oath of allegiance. In consequence, first, I affirm my duty as a subject of the British Empire; second, as a citizen of Canada; third, as a citizen of my own Province of Quebec. And then, taking a wider range of the duty of any man towards his ancestors' lineage, I declare that under the cruel circumstances of the case, I also consider it is my duty to defend France against her deadly enemy. Further enlarging the vision of duty to its fullest extent, I say that I am bound to defend the cause of the Allies by proving that I am a loyal servant of Justice and Right.
Surely I could not emphasize in terms more pregnant my loyalty to the cause of the British Empire, of France, and their Allies, of Liberty and Civilization. I confidently hope they will persuade my readers that this book was written with the most sincere and patriotic desire to help rallying my French Canadian compatriots to the defence of the British, French and Canadian flags, which must together emerge triumphant from the gigantic fight against the most threatening wave of barbarism the world has ever had to contend with at the cost of so great and heroic sacrifices.
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