Zweibund — the Dual Alliance — Germany and Austria-Hungary united, were the core of the Central Powers, and here join hands. The bars of Germany's flag border the top left, and those of the Habsburg Austrian Empire and ruling house the bottom right.

Schulter an Schulter

Untrennbar vereint

in Freud und in Leid!'



Shoulder to shoulder

Inseparably united

in joy and in sorrow!

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Friday, June 18, 1915

"When Buchanan and I met at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs this morning, the same idea was in our minds:

'To-day is the centenary of Waterloo!'

But this is not the time for the ironic pleasures of historical comparison . . ."

Quotation Context

From the entry for June 18, 1915 from the memoir of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, meeting the British Ambassador, George Buchanan in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. II by Maurice Paléologue, page 14, publisher: George H. Doran Company

Tags

1915-06-18, 1915, June, Waterloo