What is Back of the WarBobbs-Merrill Company, 1915 - Всего страниц: 430 |
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... industrial development . This growth of our commerce has crowded England . The whole world knows that she has long ... industry , by making and selling things which the re- mainder of the world wants and needs . It was to break down ...
... industrial development . This growth of our commerce has crowded England . The whole world knows that she has long ... industry , by making and selling things which the re- mainder of the world wants and needs . It was to break down ...
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... industry and commerce ; I ask you - what do you say ? " " Yes , very well indeed - wonderfully well , " I re- plied . " Well , then , we wished only to be let alone , so that we could go on doing well , and making well better if we ...
... industry and commerce ; I ask you - what do you say ? " " Yes , very well indeed - wonderfully well , " I re- plied . " Well , then , we wished only to be let alone , so that we could go on doing well , and making well better if we ...
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... of them , which our industry and commerce now keep prosperously and happily here in Germany . " " But , Your Excellency , we are neutral ; we wish to be impartial and just , even in thought , as 68 WHAT IS BACK OF THE WAR.
... of them , which our industry and commerce now keep prosperously and happily here in Germany . " " But , Your Excellency , we are neutral ; we wish to be impartial and just , even in thought , as 68 WHAT IS BACK OF THE WAR.
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... industry bring forth no such de- votion ; or why exertion which these men put forth smoothly , without friction or grumbling , and even with joy in their work , staggers even the civilian mind to contemplate . And you speculate , too ...
... industry bring forth no such de- votion ; or why exertion which these men put forth smoothly , without friction or grumbling , and even with joy in their work , staggers even the civilian mind to contemplate . And you speculate , too ...
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... industry , commerce , science , in which they have succeeded so wonderfully . No effort is spared , but also no effort is wasted . * See Chapters VII and VIII on “ German Thought Back of the War . " At the heart of this amazing ...
... industry , commerce , science , in which they have succeeded so wonderfully . No effort is spared , but also no effort is wasted . * See Chapters VII and VIII on “ German Thought Back of the War . " At the heart of this amazing ...
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Стр. 346 - Government to another without the consent, by plebiscite or otherwise, of the population of such province. 2. No Treaty, Arrangement, or Undertaking shall be entered upon in the name of Great Britain without the sanction of Parliament. Adequate machinery for ensuring democratic control of foreign policy shall be created. 3. The Foreign Policy of Great Britain shall not be aimed at creating Alliances for the purpose of maintaining the Balance of Power...
Стр. 339 - Belgium, honor and interest would have united us with France. We had refused, it is true, to give her or Russia any binding pledge up to the last moment. We had, however, for many years past led both to understand that, if they' were unjustly attacked, they might -rely upon our aid.
Стр. 346 - Great Britain shall propose as part of the Peace settlement a plan for the drastic reduction, by consent, of the armaments of all the belligerent Powers, and to facilitate that policy shall attempt to secure the general nationalisation of the manufacture of armaments, and the control of the export of armaments by one country to another.
Стр. 339 - We keep our word when we have given it, but we do not give it without solid practical reasons, and we do not set up to be international Don Quixotes, ready at all times to redress wrongs which do us no hurt. .... Even had Germany not invaded Belgium, honour and interest would have united us with France. We joined the Triple Entente because we realised, however late in the day, that the time of "splendid isolation
Стр. 121 - I do not like you, Doctor Fell; The reason why I can not tell; But this, I'm sure, I know full well, I do not tike you, Doctor Fell.
Стр. 340 - ... certainly, was a desire to preserve the peace of Europe, but it was the chief only because to preserve that peace was the one certain way to preserve our own. In the event of war we saw, as our fathers had seen, England's first line of attack and of defence in her Continental Alliances. When we subsidized every State in Germany, and practically all Europe, in the Great War, we did not lavish our gold from love of German or of Austrian liberty, or out of sheer altruism. No; we invested it for...
Стр. 381 - No province shall be transferred from one Government to another without the consent by plebiscite, or otherwise, of the population of such province.
Стр. 349 - ... crowned with success; they suggest the despair of those who have played a desperately risky game and lost. The one Power which, on the showing of the White Paper, marched on calmly and imperturbably throughout, was Russia. The Germans could not stand by passively while Russia destroyed Austria : honour and interest alike made such a course impossible. They were bound by their Alliance, and they felt convinced that if they were passive it would be their turn next to be overrun by the Russian hordes.
Стр. 351 - Imperialists will be calling out for a strong . Germany to balance a threatening Russia. A mechanical fatality has forced France into this struggle, and a comradeship, translated by secret commitments into a defensive alliance, has brought us into the war in her wake. It is no real concern of hers or of ours. It is a war for the Empire of the East. If our statesmanship is clearsighted, it will stop the war before it has passed from a struggle for the...
Стр. 340 - England is fighting for exactly the same kind of reasons for which she fought Philip II, Louis XIV, and Napoleon. . . . She is not fighting primarily for Belgium or for Serbia, for France, or for Russia. They fill a great place in her mind and in her heart. But they come second. The first place belongs, and rightly belongs, to herself.