Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25 [PAGE 20]

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speed her." And Mr. Chamberlain added • "If ,„ • M tions are determined to pursue distant colonial enter?-^ " have no right to prevent them." I„ 1911 S i r Edward r"' said the same thing in almost the same words. S u n Z £ ? ments are on record from authoritative British statesman a publicists with reference to German commerce "" No evidence has ever been produced to show that any on. or a„ 0 ( t h e s any .„ Mes h a d a n y tween Great Bntam, France and Russia was, on the other hani a measure entered into as a protection against threatened German aggression. The policy fofu rGermany iwas to sow disa her StateS E n e k ZSFTT* «'maintained, through the «P « them P^a °* ° °P ' Triple Alliance, whde she herself sohd barrier of force separating eastern Europe from western. CTeate re udice havJ Ain *° P i ™ h«r favor, German writers B ngly U p o n t h e b of m«L7 v. v °S«3' navahsm, and when Critidsed h a v e tuf^r £ ^ ""mediately brought oat make an p r e i u d ^ T i ^ ? * ,*° nnpression. Unthinking or am ng ourselv w M Z ,Z **?"* ° « . ^ t fully acquainted H VC b e 1 C a U h t n^oWect^' r " e by the phrase The world an miUtarism in « S t t £ £ ™ * e sense that it was a 0 1 1 gretten S ^ S f ' < = - t « d * - the purposes of agmade "• ^ " f *** "s use for aggression not only 1 N o such of the alleeed nriw.i." *"": statement can be made S a hundred y ^ d v o ™ ™ « « " * e history of the pas. nd at navy ha, b«n used »*fT r t I f * «>e preponderant British 8ub u the imposition of for,iU. 1 J 6ation of alien neonles and U n n enrcaeed in ..'T.!*™ oeen engaged in suppressing ^ P° unwilling subjects, but nas «»wiuin g

of science, and in no c a s T h a K ^ ' * » g the interests a great naval power dominate . 1 ° ** ^ r e s s o r . Nor can a S3me Sense 13 a military power can do so p • t* * &*** been roven ovcr over again, the latest instanc ° V * ^ P ^ GaIli ola that navies cannot overcome land T ? * * P campaign, defenses But the country which with a'st and military power, g aVy backed b a army, i s able to effect a hnd " ' Y mighty t h n llse strength for subju ation 'ThTf ^ ° «ts military - m freedom of the seas"

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