Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 2 of 2)Suttner, Bertha von
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Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 2 of 2)
Suttner, Bertha von
Peace; Suttner, Bertha von, 1843-1914; Women -- Austria -- Biography
Wittgenstein, Prince Philipp, I, 42, 43
Wolff, Julius, I, 273, 390, 395
Wollrabe, photographer, II, 302
Wolzogen, Baron von, I, 390, 395; II, 197
Woodford, General, II, 169
Wormser, I, 97, 99
Wrangel, Marshal von, I, 60
Wratislav, Count, I, 86
Wrede, Prince Alfred, I, 342, 445; II, 139
Yang-Yü, Ambassador, II, 253, 261, 275, 360, 362;
his wife, II, 253, 261, 271
Zanini, Count, II, 237
Zeretelli, General, I, 221
Zichy, Count Eugen, II, 115, 121, 124, 161, 249
Zola, Émile, I, 414; II, 34, 172, 174, 180, 343
Zorn, Professor, II, 293, 295, 298, 299, 301, 309, 323
Zychy, I, 253
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Footnote 1:
Sergyeï Vasilgevitch Vereshchágin. Still another brother, Alexander
Vasilgevitch Vereshchágin, was wounded in the same campaign, and gives
vivid pictures of the horrors of the march in his volume, “At Home and
in War.”
Footnote 2:
Session of June 10, 1893.—B. S.
Footnote 3:
In the course of this speech Gladstone made the statement, “Militarism
is indeed a most terrible curse for civilization.”—B. S.
Footnote 4:
The justified hope of the proposer was that a definitive peace
(_definitivum_) would develop from this provisional one
(_provisorium_.)
Footnote 5:
Even to-day reason is not yet heeded, because the all-powerful
megaphone of the political press is closed to it.—B. S.
Footnote 6:
“What would you have us do? We are the weak, the vanquished; but as
soon as there are propositions of disarmament coming from the victors
we are ready to enter into negotiations.”
Footnote 7:
At the present time one would say “in combating social misery, in
ennobling and elevating the masses, in ethicalizing all classes”
(_Ethisierung aller Stände_).—B. S.
Footnote 8:
Yet how singeing hot these rays are still burning in the Transvaal and
in Manchuria! (Observation of 1908.)—B. S.
Footnote 9:
This is the case even to-day (1908).—B. S.
Footnote 10:
The first series of massacres extended from October 3, 1895, to
January 1, 1896. On the part of the Armenians, as is shown by
documentary evidence, there was no provocation whatever. In spite of
that, 85,000 people were killed, about 2300 cities and villages were
laid waste, more than 100,000 Christians were compulsorily converted
to Islam, and 500,000 were reduced to starvation.—B. S.
Footnote 11:
_Der Geiger_, or rather _Der Geigenmacher, von Cremona_, a one-act
opera by Hans Trneček, born May 16, 1858, at Prague. Text by Leopold
Günther, after Coppée. First produced at the Court Theater of
Schwerin, April 16, 1886.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 12:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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