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1915 · PDF PAGE 1

The World On Fire

…rmany 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 first-class opportunity, and we shall never regret it. We thank God that we are not as other…

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1915 · PDF PAGE 6

The World On Fire

powers outnumbering her by six to one, sought to keep open a path to raid that universal base of operations? Even the stolid Teuton nature must tire of the per- petual squeeze of Russia, the spurs of the French chan- ticleer struck even and anon in his hide. Agadir was a fresh humiliation; for a few acres of uninhabitable jungle on the Congo he had to surrender all interest in Morocco, a country he had nursed for years. It is still a diplomatic secret, and I must not betray it. But who financed Italy in her Tripolitan adventure, and why? Austri…

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