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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 15
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g The German expansionists, who talk glibly of Kultur in Eg) Mesopotamia, India, and China, doubtless based their hoi>es larf the Baghdad project. And then suddenly the dream vanished. It •is learned that the chief of an Arab tribe on the shores of the Pen Gulf the sheikh of Koweit, had, even before the Germans had arran to build their railway, placed his territories under the protection Fncrland And the port of Koweit was the only available terminal <rreat road is as interlopers. For over the Persian Gulf. policed its waters and three hundred given trade what security it has been able to enjoy. The Union Jack was there even before the Turkish Crescent appeared in the Persian Gulf; but the English annexed no territory; they were in those waters in the interest of trade only. altruistic; and yet, when it is compared with the imperialistic policies of other nations, it reveals a remarkably unselfish spirit. England does not tax her colonies; the taxes raised in Canada, Australia, or India are spent in and for the colony that pays the tax. What England wants in the Orient is an granted in her own favor by means of protective tariffs. It may be said in passing that the Germans are not able to understand the spirit of British imperialism; to them it is incontestable evidence that the " shop-keeper'' nation is an inefficient and inferior race. IV. The Entente. During the decade when the German expansionists were preparing to challenge British power in the Orient, the English diplomats were seeking to establish friendly relations with other powers. The alliance with Japan (1902) has already been noted. More important were the understandings with France (1904) and with Russia (1907) which became the basis of the Triple Entente. There was no real hostility between France and England in 1904, but the feeling was not wholly cordial and in certain parts of the world the English and the French were keen rivals. They had come near to collision in central Africa where French Soudan jostles English Soudan.
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