FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
New York and London
1920
Copyright, 1920, by Funk & Wagnalls Company
[Printed in the United States of America]
Published in February, 1920 Copyright under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics of the United States, August 11, 1910
PREFATORY NOTE The chapters of which this little volume consists were constructed with a definite purpose. It was to render clear the line of thought and action followed by the Government of this country before the war, between January, 1906, and August, 1914. The endeavor made was directed in the first place to averting war, and in the second place to preparing for it as well as was practicable if it should come. In reviewing what happened I have made use of the substance of various papers recently contributed to the Westminster Gazette, the Atlantic Monthly, Land and Water, and the Sunday Times. The gist of these, which were written with their inclusion in this book in view, has been incorporated in the text together with other material. I have to thank the Editors of these journals for their courtesy in agreeing that the substance of what they published should be made use of here as part of a connected whole.
CONTENTS | PAGE | | Introduction | 13 | | Diplomacy Before the War | 35 | | The German Attitude Before the War | 101 | | The Military Preparations | 177 | | Epilog | 207 | | Index | 227 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | PAGE | | Viscount Haldane | Frontispiece | | Count Metternich | Facing page 57 | | M. Paul Cambon | 78 | | Viscount Grey (Sir Edward Grey) | 87 | | Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg | 101 | | Admiral von Tirpitz | 137 | | Count Berchtold | 153 | | Count Ottokar Czernin | 170 |
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