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…aseless raids and rav- ages of Bonaparte? But in a hundred crises he kept his head; he kept the peace. He had plenty of chances to smash France forever; he did not take them. An ambitious prince might have put a relative on the throne of Louis XIV while France was torn by the Boulanger affair, the Pa- nama scandal, the Dreyfus horror, when Diogenes might have gone through France with a modern search-light for his lantern without finding a single man who was not a traitor to his country, or at least to the Republic, and the most trustworthy man …
1915 · PDF PAGE 1
…ars by internal divisions; only a part of her population is of German stock. But against Germany and this one friend are arrayed Russia, France, England, Servia, Montene- gro, and Japan; and every one of these nations is throw- ing its whole diplomatic weight into the task of getting Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Holland, Denmark, and the United States of America to join in. We are only about 6 to 1 at present, and feel insecure. My own view is simpler. We have waited for a long while to smash Germany and steal her goods. We have taken a f…
1915 · PDF PAGE 2
…till anyone who has even been to Russia wants to go away quietly and die. England has spent about nine centuries in hating and despising France, in crying out on her for Atheism and immorality and all the rest of it; Edward VII, one night upon Mont Martre, shwears the French are jolly good shportsh, bigod, and lo! the Angel of the Entente Cordiale. It is disgusting to have to foul clean paper with the name of Servia. These swineherds who murdered and mutilated their own king and queen; whose manners make their own pigs gentlefolk; these assassi…
1915 · PDF PAGE 6
…s one ally was handicapped by domestic unrest; he was isolated in Europe; England was increasing her navy at a pace he could never beat; France, with her three years' law, was proposing to in- crease her army by fifty per cent at a stroke; Russia was turning flank, pushing on through the Balkans subtly and surely. And the Kaiser answered, "I am the servant of God; I stand for peace. The Crown Prince is for war; I banish him from the Court. When I am dead let him be master; but while I live I am for peace. And let him that draws the sword perish…
1915 · PDF PAGE 7
…u- sands of British troops were already in Belgian waters, and the fleet, concentrated and ready for action, already held the North Sea. France withdrew her troops from the frontier "so as to avoid any possibility of incidents which might be mis- taken for aggression," while her Algerian and Senegam- bian troops were on the water, half-way to Marseilles. He knew that this time there was no hope of peace. Abdication itself would hardly have saved Germany from a long-prepared, carefully-planned war, a war whose avowed object, an object in the mou…