 | 1915 - 980 pages
...Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession; must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce?' 1 Policy, playing on ignorance, — that is the origin of wars. But why the policy? What is it aiming... | |
 | 1910 - 886 pages
...extinguished to-morrow, there is not an Englishman in the world who would not the day after to-morrow be the richer. Nations have fought for years over...which ought to be as offensive to educated folk as a defense of astrology or of witchcraft. What does the "extinction" of Germany mean? Does it mean that... | |
 | 1916 - 640 pages
...who would not be the richer the day after tomorrow. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession — must they not fight for two...hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce?" This calm toying with a war of prevention is carried on all the more cold-bloodedly since the mad idea... | |
 | Graf Ernst Reventlow - 1916 - 248 pages
...Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession; must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce ? " At the time there were many, in Germany, who were of opinion that no importance was to be attached... | |
 | 1916 - 640 pages
...richer the day after tomorrow. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession—must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce?" This calm toying with a war of prevention is carried on all the more cold-bloodedly since the mad idea... | |
 | Walter Edward Weyl - 1917 - 328 pages
...an Englishman in the world who would not be richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession, must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce ? " 1 No doubt this assertion of a complete opposition between British and German commerce and investment... | |
 | Edwyn Robert Bevan - 1917 - 328 pages
...Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession ; must they not fight for two...hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce?" And it concludes: "Germanium esae delendam." The document which has served the Germans' turn so well... | |
 | John Bakeless - 1921 - 290 pages
...Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession; must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of commerce? . . . England has awakened to what is alike inevitable and her best hope of prosperity. 'Gennaniam... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1922 - 344 pages
...Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession ; must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of commerce? .... England has not awakened to what is alike inevitable and her best hope of prosperity.... | |
 | Herbert Freeman Fraser - 1926 - 378 pages
...be richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or 1 Statesman's Year-book 1914, pp. 952-961. a right of succession, must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce? . . . England has not awakened to what is alike inevitable and her best hope of prosperity. Germaniam... | |
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If Germany were extinguished to-morrow, the day after to-morrow there is not an Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession ; must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million... 
