 A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause of war the world has ever seen. 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...  Patriotism and Empire - Page 56by John Mackinnon Robertson - 1899 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Edward Weyl - 1917 - 328 pages
...tinned meat, from temperance to trade-gin, the German and the Englishman are struggling to be first. A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...is not 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... | |
 | Walter Edward Weyl - 1917 - 328 pages
...tinned meat, from temperance to trade-gin, the German and the Englishman are struggling to be first. A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...is not 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... | |
 | Walter Edward Weyl - 1917 - 324 pages
...tinned meat, from temperance to trade-gin, the German and the Englishman are struggling to be first. A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...is not 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... | |
 | Oscar Albert Marti - 1917 - 108 pages
...tinned meat, from temperance to trade gin, the German and the Englishman is struggling to be first. A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...has ever seen. If Germany were extinguished tomorrow there is not an Englishman in the world who would not be richer. Nations have fought for years over... | |
 | William Herbert Perry Faunce - 1918 - 130 pages
...history of successful aggression, and Germany compete in every corner of the globe. ... If Germany was extinguished tomorrow, the day after tomorrow there...is not an Englishman in the world who would not be richer." Such utterances have furnished munitions of war to the Treitschkes and the Bernhardis of today... | |
 | John Bakeless - 1921 - 290 pages
...extract from the famous leader in the London Saturday Review of September 11, 1897, is extremely apropos: "A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...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 - 296 pages
...hotheaded writer in the Saturday Review voiced the sentiments of many Englishmen when he exclaimed: "A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...has ever seen. If Germany were extinguished tomorrow there is not an Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years... | |
 | 1910 - 914 pages
...great power. An article in the Saturday Review for September ii, 1897, expressed these sentiments: "A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Hamburg and Bremen, the Kiel Canal and the Baltic ports would lie under the guns of England waiting... | |
 | 1910 - 1158 pages
...great power. An article in the Saturday Review for September 11, 1897, expressed these sentiments: "A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. . . . Hamburg and Bremen, the Kiel Canal and the Baltic ports would lie under the guns of England waiting... | |
 | Herbert Freeman Fraser - 1926 - 380 pages
...tinned meat, from temperance to trade-gin, the German and the Englishman are struggling to be first. A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause...is not an Englishman in the world who would not be richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or 1 Statesman's Year-book 1914, pp. ps*-<)6i. a... | |
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