# The World Decision

Author: Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938

Genre: Category: History - European

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8529

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+World+Decision+Herrick&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Last April, when I left New York for Europe, Italy was "on the verge" of entering the great war. According to the meager reports that a strict censorship permitted to reach the world, Italy had been hesitating for many months between a continuance of her precarious neutrality and joining with the Allies, with an intermittent war fever in her pulses. It was known that she was buying supplies for her ill-equipped army--boots and food and arms. Nevertheless, American opinion had come to the somewhat cynical belief that Italy would never get further than the verge of war; that her Austrian ally would be induced by the pressure of necessity to concede enough of those "national aspirations," of...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-decision-8529/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-decision-8529/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-decision-8529/chapters/3/index.md)