Identifier: worldinperplexit00dani (find matches)
Title: A world in perplexity
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Daniells, Arthur Grosvenor, 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Washington, D.C., New York city (etc.) Review and herald publishing assn
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Photo by Paul Thompson Field Artillery Camp, Fort Bliss, Tex. THE NATIONS AT WAR The wild onrush of events in a world at war; thesudden and startling changes in finance, in commerce, inindustry; the quick movement of armies and of navies bywhich the hopes and ambitions of two generations are grat-ified; the dazed perplexity of the worlds most trusted lead-ers,— all these are characteristic of the days through whichwe are living.—Nicholas Murray Butler, President Co-lumbia University, in *A World in Ferment^** p. 88. The world is in perplexity. To all the sufferingsincident to human experience in normal times has beenadded, by the most terrible of all wars, distress ofnations, with perplexity. Austrias declaration of war upon Serbia the 28thday of July, 1914, seemed a small event in this worldof many and widely scattered nations, each bent uponthe pursuit of its own interests. But that act set theworld on fire. 7
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NEWTON D. BAKERUnited States Secretary of War The Nations at War 9 The year 1918 opened with twenty-three nations atwar, and ten more had severed diplomatic relations.The population of these nations is fifteen hundred mil-hon,— more than seven eighths of the human race. Engulfed in war, nation after nation has been sweptby the terrible tide of destruction. Neither hemispherehas escaped. Armies march in Europe, Asia, andAfrica. No seas are without their mines, their battle-

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