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… Archduke was either instigated by Panslavism or was a threat equally to the Tsar as to any other ruler re- plies by mobilizing. Sir Edward Grey spoke for peace, spoke of neutral- ity, in the House of Commons at a moment when thou- 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 …
1915 · PDF PAGE 4
Edward VII spoke English with an accent; and at the first hour of war with Germany we found the first Lord of the Admiralty a German Prince! Until this year England has never been at war with Germany in the course of history since the Conquest. Our very speech, half German, betrayeth us. All this is finished. The German is a Hun, and a Vandal, and a monster, and a woman-torturer, and a child-murderer, and runs away in his millions at the sight of a Territorial from Hoxton. And the British Army has won victory after victory against enormous odds…
1915 · PDF PAGE 5
…arrison of Moscow in the Kremlin, trained their own guns upon them, and disarmed them. The Kaiser did nothing. Surely the Russo-Japanese war and the Boer war showed plainly if any fool there were who could not see it à priori that the greatest, widest, best, and only impregnable military base is the sea. Today we can bring Russian troops from Vladivostock or Archangel and land them at Ostend, a million at a time, and Germany must be well-served indeed by spies if she knows of the operation in time to guard against it. Is it then so treacher…
1915 · PDF PAGE 6
…, Italy alienated from the Triple Alliance, the Slav expanding everywhere, Constantinople itself threatened, Roumania (even) turn- ing toward Russia, he must have felt like a victim of that maiden of armor and spears that once executed justice on the weak. And all this had been accomplished without sword drawn or cannon fired. Here then stood Wilhelm, dauntless but defeated. His diplomacy had failed; his 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,…