The Causes and Consequences of the War (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Causes and Consequences of the War This book is devoted to an attempt to deduce from the political and economic causes of the present war the principles governing the conditions which alone can assure a lasting peace. Errors of diplomacy arc fraught with more disastrous consequences than errors on the battlefield. For example, the blunder of Talleyrand and Lord Castlereagh in 1815 in forcing the Rhine Province and Westphalia on Prussia when she coveted Saxony (Russia being fully in sympathy with her), was unquestionably the first step towards the wars of 1866 and 1870. Again, we must look for the real origin of the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and the present world-conflict in that coalition of 1878 against Russia, into which Bismarck and Lord Beaconsfield dragged France, and which substituted the Treaty of Berlin for the Treaty of San Stefano. A public opinion educated enough to appreciate the problems to be solved can alone guarantee us against a repetition of the errors of esoteric diplomacy. It is the duty of the Allies to make better preparations for peace than they did for war. The Germans seem to be making a point of arousing and deserving the bitterest hatred. Now hatred is a force in actual warfare which is not without its value, for it can only be satisfied by that decisive victory failing which peace can be but a temporary and uneasy truce. But neither individuals nor peoples can live on hate. It is no substitute for food and only ends by devouring him who cherishes it. That way lies destruction. 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.
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