Life, 1918-03-14 · page 38 of 40
Life — March 14, 1918 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This is a **magazine advertisement** for *The Delineator* (April issue), promoting an article by Brand Whitlock, the American Minister to Belgium during World War I. The ad references the **German invasion of Belgium in August 1914**—a pivotal early WWI event that shocked American opinion. The dramatic imagery (a revolver dripping blood over a map) emphasizes German brutality during the invasion. Whitlock, described as a "trained writer and true American," witnessed the occupation of Brussels. The ad quotes his characterization of German forces as "soulless" and "distinctly German," contrasting their mechanical efficiency with their moral emptiness. The ad also references **King Albert of Belgium** and Parliament's defiant stand against the advancing Germans—portraying Belgian resistance as heroic. For 1915 American readers, this framed Germany as barbaric and Belgium as a tragic victim, potentially influencing pro-Allied sentiment before U.S. entry into the war (1917).
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“ALL THAT ORGANIZATION C RESISTLESS, DISCIPLINED AND EFF ’ WAS YET HEAVY, SODDEN AND W ans OUT SOUL, DISTINCTLY GERMAN, ITSELF THE FIRST AND MOST TRAGIC VICT BRAND WHITLOCK, American Minister to Belgium, watched with the ~ impartial face of a diplomat / and the beating heart of an outraged American, the gray- “green horde of Germansoldiers enter Belgium’s capital. In Tue Dewtnearor for April, he has written his impressions of that fate- ful occasion. A trained writer and true. American, still at his post in stricken Europe, Mr. Whitlock is perhaps the only living man adequate to de-& scribe the events of August 20, 1914.) Brand Whitlock also stood in the. Nation: Palace that dramatic hour when King Albe, and his Parliament threw down re gra to the Hun already at the gate. Mr. Whitlock pictures this scene in vivid, moving words in the April DeLtnEATor. Do not miss this great war issue, onsale March tenth. prison Th glasse trict magn paral and comy done neu Does j safely, with ar perspir clothin