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Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
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WORLD WAR I

(See also 1914; War; Weapons)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

attitude toward Bible affected by: g81 5/8 6

Battle of the Somme (France): g85 4/8 6

beginning: w83 8/1 23; yb73 98; w72 351-352, 748; pm 332; fm 43; ns 315; w60 30-31, 56; yw 269-272; nh 248; w52 273

Belgium:

unexploded shells dug up in 1979: w79 8/1 4

book Black Jack Pershing: w74 217

book Eye Deep in Hell: kc 112-113

book Preachers Present Arms:

quote showing clergy responsible for persecution of Witnesses during World War I: w64 653

casualties: g85 4/8 6; g84 10/22 6; g83 10/8 12; kc 120; tr 86-87; hp 146; w79 7/1 6; w79 8/1 4; w74 357; tp73 82; g71 10/8 16; g70 5/8 11; w69 69; fm 51; w67 198; ev 162; w64 678; g61 2/22 6; g54 12/22 10; g47 9/8 5; g46 6/19 29; g40 3/20 25; g40 4/3 9; g39 2/8 25; g38 6/29 13; g35 5/22 519; g33 10/25 54

for both world wars: w83 4/1 6; w78 1/1 14; w78 1/15 9; gh 148

Catholic Church: g60 10/8 13-14

causes: g85 4/8 5; g83 9/8 12-14; g70 5/8 8-10; km 1/68 4; im 325; bf 502-503; w62 238; pa 180; sr55 114; w53 631; g47 9/8 8; w33 69-70; g31 7/8 654

murder of Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary: g83 9/8 14

clergy: g81 5/8 6; yb79 103-104; w74 217; g73 5/8 23; g73 6/8 17-18; pm 307-308; g72 4/22 14-15; g72 6/8 26; g68 7/8 8; g47 9/8 8; w36 132; g35 1/30 280; g35 7/31 687

opposition to Witnesses: yb79 104, 108-110

responsibility: w85 8/1 6; w80 1/15 6; g78 12/22 10

commerce: g40 2/21 20; g35 5/22 526-528; g35 7/3 621

compared with previous wars: g85 4/8 7; w75 633; w67 198; ev 162; g65 5/22 5; w61 627; g61 2/22 6; pa 180; g54 12/22 11; nh 248-249; g53 10/8 25; g47 9/8 4-7

conditions before: g81 5/8 5-6, 29; yb74 78-79

conscientious objectors: w79 6/15 5-6

Britain: g82 8/22 11

cost: g70 5/8 10; w64 678; g60 12/22 23; w58 323; g54 12/22 11; g40 4/3 9; g39 1/11 30; g39 5/3 27; g38 6/29 13; g35 5/22 519; g35 9/11 784; g34 3/28 403; g34 6/20 590; g34 8/1 694; g34 8/15 722; g33 1/18 242; g33 7/5 620; g33 10/25 54

to kill one soldier: g84 1/22 7

countries participating: go 130; kj 59; fm 50, 328-329; w66 757; gn 20; w64 442; bf 502; pa 179; w56 744; sr55 99; w54 632; gn54 20; g47 9/8 5; g46 6/19 29

number claiming to be Christian: w78 3/1 23

opposing sides in Europe: g85 10/8 6

percentage of world: hp 146

countries that remained neutral: g83 9/22 21

debts: g54 12/22 11; g47 9/8 6; g33 3/15 364; g33 6/7 569-570

de Gaulle’s comment on effect of: su 29

discovery in 1974 of remains of American soldiers in a trench: g80 2/8 30

discussion: w83 4/1 4-6; g83 9/8 11-14; g83 9/22 20-23; g83 10/8 12-15; w82 11/1 7

disease: w69 458

effects: g75 1/8 29; g74 5/8 29; g73 6/22 10-12; w71 468-469; g71 10/8 15; g70 5/8 11; g70 8/22 15; w69 525-527, 529

on divorce rate: w83 6/1 6

on lawlessness: w83 6/1 6

on oil industry: g61 3/22 22

on world: w84 5/1 3-4

on world map: g62 6/8 9

end: g83 9/22 23; g83 10/8 12; w75 611-612; og 3; pm 273, 333; kj 59, 63, 73, 78; fm 51, 159; w66 311, 758; bf 503; ns 318; sr55 114-115, 120; nh 261; wl 284; w36 132; w35 60; wn 14; w33 70; v-1 231

expectations of optimism for the future after: w83 4/15 12

experiences:

of a marine: g30 5/14 515-518; g30 5/28 551-556; g30 6/11 591-595; g30 6/25 623-627; g30 7/9 655-659; g30 7/23 689-693; g30 8/6 719-722; g30 8/20 757-760; g30 9/3 787-792

student relates sufferings of his relatives: g78 12/22 3-4

gas warfare: g83 9/22 22; g61 9/22 20-21

machine gun: g83 9/22 22

map of Central European Powers in 1914: g83 9/8 13

peace treaty: go 136

percentage of persons who recall: g75 7/8 29

number of Americans: w80 10/15 31

population involved: g66 6/8 4; g66 11/22 4; g64 8/22 14; w61 627; pa 179; w56 745; g54 12/22 10; g47 9/8 4

refugees: g39 2/22 5-7

Satan the Devil incited: w83 5/15 22-23; w72 352

significance: tr 86, 91-92; g81 5/8 5-8; w74 357; tp73 76-77, 80-82; g73 1/22 8; g73 10/8 16-17, 20; g71 10/8 15-16; g70 5/8 11-12; w69 69; fm 50-52; is 123; g69 10/8 10; w68 120; g68 1/8 9-10; g68 10/8 5-8, 12-13; w67 198; ev 162-163; w66 618-619; li 357-359; kd 15; w65 294; im 322; gn 20; bf 503; w59 335; w58 635; w57 612; w54 710; gn54 20; nh 248-250; w52 273; w45 308

unexpected: g85 4/8 5; g73 7/8 30

United States:

Wilson’s (Woodrow) efforts to avoid involvement: g85 10/8 3

use of aircraft: g85 3/8 3-4

violence ever since: w78 10/1 4

Wells’ (H. G.) comment on: g77 5/8 29

YMCA’s support: w79 1/1 31

Quotations

1914 war was the initial quake that gave birth to tremors still rocking us today: w83 2/15 6

1914 was one of the most fateful years in human history: kc 120-121

a generation had been decimated on the battlefields of Europe: w83 4/1 5

assumed war was impossible: g73 7/8 30

a universe of concepts was shattered: w75 684

a war no one wanted and a catastrophe that no one could have imagined: g83 9/8 13

a world that ended in 1914: w84 5/15 3

beginning of world’s death pangs: w78 1/15 10

benchmark in evolution of modern America: g75 4/22 29

calm world of yesterday vanished: g68 2/8 30

changed every interest and character of life: w56 744-745

changed the face of the earth: w80 10/15 15; g71 10/8 15

changed the world: g81 1/8 11

closed era of peace, began age of violence: tr 91; w69 72; g68 1/8 9

crucial event in first half of twentieth century: g71 10/8 15

difficult to discover any cause of hostility between the European Great Powers in the early summer of 1914: g85 4/8 5

diplomats took the chaos of the Great War, and sealed it as the permanent condition of our century: g85 4/8 7

easy to prevent: g56 3/8 7; g54 11/22 6

first of the total wars: im 322

first total war: w82 11/1 7; g73 10/8 20

first war in which technology played such an important part: w82 11/1 7

first war which could, with justification, be called a world conflict: w82 11/1 7

first world war produced the most serious upheaval in the long and stormy course of modern world history: w83 4/1 4-5

for the first time in history mankind came to know total war: g81 5/8 6

fulfilled extraordinary prophecy: g75 4/8 15; g73 10/8 17; w71 468; jp 54; w55 173; w52 260

golden age of peace ended abruptly: g73 1/22 8

great divide in world history: g71 10/8 15

half century of peace and progress ended: g69 4/22 18

hardest war of all to explain: w79 2/15 13

marked end of old order and shaped destiny of new: g77 5/8 29

marked end of one epoch and beginning of another: g75 4/8 15

marked the end of 100 years of peace and progress and signaled the end of an era: w81 2/15 10

marked the end of one historic era and the beginning of another: g83 10/8 12-13

meant the end of an age: hp 146

much of our present predicament can be traced back to it: w83 12/15 14

no calculated, advance decision made for global war: g73 1/22 8

not even the Second World War had such an effect upon us as did the First World War: w82 11/1 7

one of the great convulsions of history: kc 115

opened new age of violence: w68 120

period up to the first World War was more humane: w83 7/15 16-17; w78 10/1 3-4

profound turning point: kc 120-121

shook the history of man: g65 5/22 5

terminated longest period of peace: g73 1/22 8

those who lived through the war could never rid themselves of the belief that one world had ended and another begun in August 1914: w84 5/15 5

time when we lost our innocence: hp 146

turning point: kc 115; tr 91; w74 165; g73 10/8 17; g71 10/8 15; w69 72; ev 163; g66 10/8 17; w61 627; jp 270; pa 180; w54 711-712; g51 11/8 12

turning point in more than a military and technological sense: w82 11/1 7

unique “greatness” of the war was one of scope and numbers: w80 10/15 15

ushered in a different world, politically, economically and intellectually: g83 10/8 12-13

ushered in a half century of conflict and ruin on a scale never before seen or even imagined: hp 146

ushered in a twentieth-century “Time of Troubles”: su 29

ushered in the century of Total War, of—in the first full sense of the term—global war: sm 41; w75 633; ml 23

war to end peace: w83 4/15 12

war to end the wars: w83 4/15 12

watershed of modern history in men’s minds: hp 146; w79 2/15 13

whole world really blew up about World War I: kc 115

world events today mirror those on the eve of World War I: g84 4/8 29

world would never be the same again: w82 11/1 7

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