What the Present War Means (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from What the Present War Means The security of Germany from attack was unquestionable. No nation in the world would have sought war with her unless forced into it by her aggressions. Even austria-hungary. As her firm ally, would have had peace in our time, as the Prayer Book says. By simply abstaining from stretching out further a despotic hand over the young nationalities of the Balkans. But the truth is'that Germany has been so confident in her' military strength, so arrogantly confident. That she has not hesitated to challenge at one and the same time during the last eight or ten years three great European powers by an openly aggressive policy. Not to speak of the feud with France, the Germanic policy in the Balkans has been not only a menace to Russia but a steady series of humiliations, and at the same time it has been just as openly challenging British power -on the sea and forcing a very burdensome competition in naval armaments on England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.