A Russian Cossack and his mount jump the border into Germany, his lance aimed squarely at Berlin. This French fantasy of its Russian ally sharply contrasted with the slow advance into East Prussia of the Russian First Army and the disastrous offensive of the Russian Second Army that ended in its destruction at Tannenberg. Germany then turned back to the Russian First Army in the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes, and drove it from Russia. Illustration by Kunder (?).
La Ruée!Hambourg, Stettin, Francfort (an der Oder), DresdenThe Mad Dash!Reverse:Koister, Pinxit, 61, Faub. Poissonnière, Paris.
"— It is only fair to note that at the Reichstag sitting on the 23rd March [1916] there were some Socialists, like Haase, who made such remarks as 'the massacre of the people'; 'there will be neither conquerors nor conquered' (that remark aroused shouts of execration, according to the reports); 'we Socialists who denounce the war.' Still, that is the first Parliament among the warring nations which has heard the echo of such brave utterances."
Undated entry from late March, 1916 from the diary of Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government. Corday was highly critical of the frequent attacks on French opponents of the war and advocates for peace, who were tarred with the brush of being in the employ of Germany. He would have liked to hear this German Socialist's sentiments spoken in the French Chamber of Deputies.
The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 153, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934
1916-03-24, 1916, March, Corday, Reichstag, Socialist, peace, Berlin
