 But, on the other hand, the whole fortunes of our race and Empire, the whole treasure accumulated during so many centuries of sacrifice and achievement, would perish and be swept utterly away if our naval supremacy were to be impaired.  What Germany Wants - Page 105by Edmund von Mach - 1914 - 157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Norman Angell - 1912 - 176 pages
...challenge it. Mr. Churchill by implication warmly supports it. At Glasgow he said : " The whole fortune of our race and Empire, the whole treasure accumulated...sacrifice and achievement would perish and be swept utterly away, if our naval supremacy were to be impaired." Now why should there be any danger of Germany... | |
 | Norman Angell - 1914 - 298 pages
...a matter of fact they are the most important of all. But take Mr. Churchill's : " The whole fortune of our race and Empire, the whole treasure accumulated...sacrifice and achievement, would perish and be swept utterly away if our naval supremacy were to be impaired." Now, Mr. Churchill is a Cabinet Minister,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Peabody Gooch - 1923 - 690 pages
...Navy is to them more in the nature of a luxury. It is existence to us ; and it is expansion to them. The whole fortunes of our race and empire, the whole...centuries of sacrifice and achievement, would perish if our naval supremacy were to be impaired. It is the British Navy which makes Great Britain a Great... | |
 | Robert Beverley Pargiter, Harold Griffin Eady - 1927 - 244 pages
...existence to us ; it is expansion to them. We cannot menace the peace of a single continental hamlet, no matter how great and supreme our Navy may become....sacrifice and achievement, would perish and be swept utterly away if our naval supremacy were impaired." Germany's ambitions, however, were not only naval.... | |
 | John Castell Hopkins - 1918 - 856 pages
...involves British existence. It is existence to us; it is expansion to them. We cannot menace the power of a single Continental hamlet nor do we wish to do...and Empire, the whole treasure accumulated during many centuries of sacrifice and achievement would perish and be swept. utterly away if our Naval supremacy... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - 1999 - 420 pages
...global position. Speaking in 1912, as the Anglo-German naval competition was unfolding, he declared: 'the whole fortunes of our race and Empire, the whole...sacrifice and achievement would perish and be swept utterly away if our naval supremacy were to be impaired.' (in Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Winston S.... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - 2003 - 186 pages
...of the great and friendly Empire — and I trust it may long remain the great and friendly Power — of Germany. The British Navy is to us a necessity...sacrifice and achievement would perish and be swept utterly away if our naval supremacy were to be impaired. It is the British Navy which makes Great Britain... | |
 | Mark Rupert, M. Scott Solomon - 2006 - 190 pages
...warships, Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill summarized what seemed to be at stake for Britain: "The whole fortunes of our race and Empire, the whole...sacrifice and achievement, would perish and be swept utterly away if our naval supremacy were to be impaired." 7 It was in this context that oil-powered... | |
 | Norman Angell - 2007 - 89 pages
...warmly supports it. At Glasgow he saidi "The whole fortune of our race and Empire, the whole Orelsure accumulated during so many centuries of sacrifice and achievement would perish and be swept utterly away, if our naval supremacy were to be impaired.* Now why should there be any danger of Germany... | |
 | 1913 - 868 pages
...them. We cannot menace the peace of a single Continental hamlet, nor do we wish to do so, no matter now great and supreme our Navy may become. But, on the...sacrifice and achievement would perish and be swept utterly away if our naval supremacy were to be impaired. It is the British Navy which makes Great Britain... | |
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