| CHAPTER | PAGE |
| I: | THE GREAT PERIL | 25 |
| Post-war Europe Revisited—Impoverishment
and Taxation—Race Hatreds Unchanged—How
War Is Begun—Vengeance Is
the Lord's—The Churches and the
League of Nations. | |
| II: | EUROPE STILL ARMING | 51 |
| Marshal Foch and the Cause of the Great
War—Navies for Defence—Strength of
Europe's Armies—Europe More Militant
Than Ever. | |
| III: | THE ERUPTION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN | 59 |
| Dropping Hot Cinders in the Balkans—Seeing
War in Pictures—Force the Arbiter
of Right and Wrong—Limiting the
Activities of the League—Bottling up
the Adriatic. | |
| IV: | IS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS A SUCCESS? | 68 |
| Triumphs of the League—All Great
Powers Should Be in It—America and
the League—Treaty and the League—Ending
the Arbitrament of the Sword. | |
| V: | THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES AND ITS CRITICS | 81 |
| Treaty Criticised But Not Read—America
and the Treaty—Labour and the Treaty—Treaty
and League of Nations Interwoven. | |
| VI: | 1922 | 95 |
| War Dance Still in the World—Ultimatum
Instead of Conference—Cannes
and Genoa—Enemies at Council Table—Talk
of an American Loan. | |
| VII: | WHAT IS FRANCE AFTER? | 104 |
| Clemenceau and the Rhine—Annexation
and Revenge—Anglo-American Guarantee
to France—PoincarÉ and the Rhine. | |
| VIII: | WHAT IS FRANCE AFTER? | 116 |
| Versailles Treaty and the Rhine Frontier—Foch
and the Political Frontier—American
and British Pressure—Sham
Republic of the Rhine. | |
| IX: | WHAT IS FRANCE AFTER? | 130 |
| Bonar Law and PoincarÉ—Productive
Sanctions and Reparations—Moratorium
for Germany Fails—Britain Stands Aside. | |
| X: | REPARATIONS | 136 |
| Reparations and the Treaty—Capacity to
Pay—Reparations Commission Changed—America's
Vacant Chair—Worthless "C"
Bonds for Britain. | |
| XI: | MR. HUGHES'S NEW HAVEN SPEECH | 147 |
| Secretary Hughes's New Haven Speech,
a Timid Deliverance—Impartial Tribunal
of Experts—Offer of American Help. | |
| XII: | THE FRENCH INVASION OF THE RUHR | 156 |
| What Germany Has Paid—"In Technical
Default"—Wrong Way to Make Germany
Pay—Ruining German Industry—France's
Secret Aim. | |
| XIII: | LOST OPPORTUNITIES | 167 |
| French Failure in the Ruhr—Wild Oats
of Reparation—The Ruhr and the League
of Nations—The Bankers' Conference. | |
| XIV: | FRENCH SCHEMES | 175 |
| Italy and the Ruhr—Iron Ore of Lorraine
and German Coal Deposits—Loucheur
and Hugo Stinnes—German
Workmen in Bondage. | |
| XV: | THE QUICKSAND | 183 |
| Loucheur and the Ruhr—Lack of Leader
in France—Disregard of Allies—Aggression
and Security—Failure of Bonar Law. | |
| XVI: | THE FIRST GERMAN OFFER | 191 |
| Does France Seek a Settlement?—Demand
for Submission in the Ruhr—German
Offer Inadequate—Keeping America
Out—Treaty Idea Not Followed. | |
| XVII: | THE SECOND GERMAN NOTE | 202 |
| German Offer and the Loan to Germany—Can
Berlin Assent to Invasion?—Reintroducing
America—Weakening Debtors
Ability to Pay. | |
| XVIII: | THE NAPOLEONIC DREAM | 213 |
| European Mind Unhinged—What Every
Frenchman Knows—Pickwick Follows
Snodgrass—Germany May Collapse—Undoing
the Work of Bismarck. | |
| XIX: | IS IT PEACE? | 225 |
| Stresemann Man of Energy—Chaos Ahead
for Germany—British Unemployment—France
a Self-contained Country—Balfour's
Note a Generous Offer. | |
| XX: | WHAT NEXT? | 234 |
| Pen-and-ink Jousting—Tory "Diehards"
and France—PoincarÉ and the Dove of
Peace—What "Pay and Stay" Means—France's
Minimum and Britain's Surrender. | |
| XXI: | THE BR WHERE ARE WE GOING?
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
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