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War Declared: No. 2. December 1916

Raemaekers, Louis, 1917, Chromolithograph
War Declared: No. 2. December 1916
War Declared: No. 2. December 1916
War Declared: No. 2. December 1916
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Item no
32931
Title
War Declared: No. 2. December 1916
Description
"After the German peace proposals hundreds of thousands waited in the streets all night to hear the allies' answer."

"The Reply to President Wilson's Peace Note, and which was generally interpreted as a diplomatic slamming of the door to neutral mediation till such time, at least, as Germany's economic distress had abated her terms, or the Allies had obtained some substantial successes in the field, at the close of a lengthy argument reasserting the purity of the Allies' motives, formulated their general aims ...."
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Date
1917
Size
36.5 x 25.3 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.