Excerpt from Andover, Massachusetts, in the World War "From this day forward we shall know That in ourselves our safety must be sought; That by our own right hands it must be wrought, That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low." Of those residents of Andover who, on the sunny morning of June 30, 1914, glanced at the unimpressive newspaper headlines announcing the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, not one had the faintest premonition of its tragic consequences. Here, as in Boston or Chicago or Denver, people on their way to work passed indifferently over the brief paragraph which told of the crime, and then turned the page to the baseball scores or the weather predictions, - possibly to the latest reports from Ulster or from Mexico or from the Caillaux trial. We had never, as a people, been very much agitated by the disasters of foreign dynasties; and Serajevo seemed very far away. Yet in less than four years, Yankee boys by the thousands were to be billeted in European countries, shedding their blood upon the soil of France, - all because of the spark which, on that momentous summer day, was set to the powder magazine of international politics. For some weeks, however, all was comparatively calm. The serenity of the vacation period was undisturbed. Then, as July drew to a close, war clouds began to gather, and, when August opened, the storm was bursting upon an astonished world. The breach between Austria and Serbia, widening rapidly, involved Germany and Russia, and then France. And when, on August 4, Great Britain, righteously indignant at the German invasion of neutral Belgium, joined forces with France and Russia, Andover, like every other American community, was made aware of the terror which Europe was facing. It would be inaccurate to assert that the sympathies of all Andover citizens were, from the beginning, actively on the side of the Allies. President Woodrow Wilson, on August 18, issued the customary formal declaration of our neutrality, and many persons, - probably the majority, - approved his course. But the rush of German hordes into a helpless adjacent state met with the instinctive resentment of thoughtful men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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