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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 15
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I outstanding tacts of recent history, the fuller understanding of which has heljKHl to drive mankind toward this conclusion. One of the chief controlling factors in British foreign policy in the second half of the nineteenth century was a deep-seated fear of Russia. Spanirng the vast plain from the Baltic Sea to Bering Strait, a distance of nearly 5.000 miles, and controlling the destinies of more than 150,000,000 ixx>ple, the Russian Empire made a tremendous impression on statesmen two generations ago. But as the century marked its close it gradually dawned upon Western Europe that Russia was not able to play the part that she had chosen. The outcome of the Russo-Japanese war convinced the world that there was much clay in the feet of the Russian giant. passed was fear of Germany The belief that Germany might some day become a British power began to find expression about thirty years aj its origin in competition and rivalry, of which three forms commercial, naval and imperialistic. I. Commercial Rivalry. The commercial rivalry originated during the eighties, when Ger b eglnmng hef w o n d e r f SZ.Tv , , * development along industrial lines had largd rovided w d n ^ T ^ ^ y P the world with manufac GCrmany a cared th sW of the world's commerce aitT 'J™ PP ™ * ^ m a n d for a large snare • . , - ~ ~ ™ v . c , i i e r mercnants even begai warp„ + wares in the markets of the British Isles. Their success irritated English, and parliament fl8*m p*** e dA a n a c t success . . ^ ^ ~U } ass German nricri/ + t K i , requiring all goods of ^ r m a n origin to be clearlv marWH "*V,«Je • /-. ..«,,., J-A ed mad not worV ™t. « - » - : * ^ , , m Germany." This law did Germans phrase and began to use it for t r a d . ™ * ™ * «niIr S uece?d ta 2 * T " t S ™ "-"i-* Sat- buTEnlhZ *° ° *"» » « « « H P *» * e world's uaae, out English commerce soon b e ^ n +« «v^ & p a r a U d i «„,+ii » especially during the five y e a r s ], U s t « vears W *• ^ 8 the war. e war n ianu w .^L_JL ~. the way . Enriandw* apparently on 11 _.. to retrain h ^Preceding r V. " ' ^ S ~ great disgust of the * L * £ ^ J g ° ^ s u p - i a c y - t o the no reason why England should wish tto n s rfScT r ^ the destruction of t ^ ™ 2 o k a Wfl r>*™ commerce ' * for German Eng and that the Ge a 'ain ™ » bt
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