JULY 27, 1989 ·
WAS FORE
J. B. H
A
GERMAN THE WAR
across Asia Minor to Baghdad and was capturing one neutral market the Persian Gulf.
after another. The rich British That truly mighty project, the market stood wide open to her ex- Baghdad railway scheme, was ports. British colonial markets brought near to completion after were as free to her goods as to protracted negotiations with Great ours. Like ripe fruit the richest Britain, whose co-operation the prizes were dropping into her lap. we, of the Foreign Germans loathed, though they could She had only to wait.
he were living to- not wholly dispense with it. If
But that was the one thing her caustic minute on a Great Britain's object had been militarists could not do. Exultant Sir E. Goschen at "encirclement". the British Govern- in the saddle, they rode Germany ng certain rather ment would have opposed the to her doom. "Your Majesty has
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om Prince Henry of scheme through thick and thin. no conception," said General von as as friendly. to That line, in German hands, would Moltke to King Albert in the pre German then could certainly, as was intended, have weakened desperately British in- fluence in the Middle East.
GAINS FOR GERMANY
:
many wants to in- val programme (i.e., three years) she most scurrilous an- Germany complained again of mpaign. When to de- being encircled when she found sequently increasing
Great Britain standing firmly by tes we have to ex-
France at the Algeciras Confer- British elector the ence and during the Agadir crisis ason, England com-· and so was foiled in her attempt to get a footing in Morocco, The soli- men- darity of the Ententes and the Franco-Russian Alliance gave her sals for a naval ho- pause. Yet she got as compensation a large slice of French colonial ter- ilding were rejected
an "insult." When ritory to add to the German Camer-
rdonable sîn in any."
E BELIEVE IT?
tish naval construc-
oons.
ned as an invitation Opinion in this country is sharp- follow suit, the Ger- ly divided on the morality and the at once accelerated. expediency of the Anglo-German hey could tire us out negotiations of 1912-18 which were
ould prefer butter
concerned with the future parti- tion of Portugal's great African Twenty-Five Years" colonies. Germany came out with
5.
hether the
German seriously believed"
the lion's share of the booty. A Convention-which gave well-justi- fied umbrage to France and Bel-
n encircling policy gium, who had not even been in- worked up. They vited to take part-was initialled, e thought, to "keep but publication was withheld. ents." Von Buelow asted in 1909 that d received a knock Austria, with Ger-
Why? At the instance of the Ger- feared defeat, when the Reichstag man Chancellor, who said that he
learned that he had not driven
a
proval, shamelessly harder bargain.
law of Europe by and Herzegovina. that most unhappy deal. As Grey There was no "encirclement" in ce by the Powers
said, he would have been willing to
mpli was a triumph give far more than he did for the over the Slav, but
sake of "a real bargain about naval thic victory. The
ent neither forgot expenditure in which Germany gave ey made ready for up her attempt to challenge our
supremacy."
." On that the Ger- mans would not yield. British na- val ton had crashed supremacy barred their path to
t challenge which
ved to resist in
circlement" on the ly by tearing a
naval
world domination.
MILITARISTS' UPPER HAND Treaty of Berlin. Except for "the encircling gloom" that was supposed caused by the British Grand Fleet y enemies Germany in German official circles, "Encir- ke a series of as- clement" was a myth. Germany ces. German influ- before the Great War strode like a nt at Constantino- giant from strength to strength. aiser visited as the She had solved the problem of how Turkey but of a to run a prosperous system of agri- me was execrated culture concurrently with an ever orld as the author expanding system of industry. She atrocities. Ger- was second only to the U.S. in the gaze stretched production of iron and steel. She
By George McManus
GREAT HEAVENS
YOU FRIGHTENED
目
ME-I THOUGHT
THAT IT WAS
THE BABY-
sence of the Kaiser, "of the irresis- tible enthusiasm with which the whole German people will be car ried away when the day of war comes." The day came, and later the reckoning.
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