A world in perplexity . taken root and grown upthrough years of emigration, territorial expansion, andindustrial and commercial development. They are thewarp and woof of the ambitions and policies of thesenations. They have been established by the ablest di-plomacy and statesmanship these nations could pro-duce, and they are interwoven with the treaties andalliances of centuries. Grave Questions Involved Are these statements true? If so, they involve ques-tions of the gravest possible character. What prize canbe offered to Great Britain that will tempt her to aban-don the ambitions and policie
A world in perplexity . taken root and grown upthrough years of emigration, territorial expansion, andindustrial and commercial development. They are thewarp and woof of the ambitions and policies of thesenations. They have been established by the ablest di-plomacy and statesmanship these nations could pro-duce, and they are interwoven with the treaties andalliances of centuries. Grave Questions Involved Are these statements true? If so, they involve ques-tions of the gravest possible character. What prize canbe offered to Great Britain that will tempt her to aban-don the ambitions and policies of centuries that havebuilded for her a mighty empire? There is nothing tooffer England that is as great to her as her empire. And what will induce Germany to abandon hercherished ambitions, her long, careful preparations,and her enormous expenditures for an empire stretch-ing from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf? All that is here said of Great Britain and Germanyis equally true of the Russian people. In case Russia. Obstacles to Peace 53 should be reconstructed, what could the powers offerthat would induce her to surrender her century-oldclaim to the free passage of the Dardanelles and theMediterranean to the open sea and the markets of theworld ? From the standpoint of national interests and hu-man ambition, it surely seems that the only way thesevital, conflicting interests can be adjudicated is by thesword. That is unquestionably the conviction of thenations at war. For that reason little, if any, ap-proach to peace has yet been made by any of the termsthat have been proposed. Is there, then, to be no peace for the world? nodeliverance from this hate, this killing, this mourning?Must this slaughter of men go on as long as there aremen in the world? What is the truth, the absolute,reliable truth, concerning this great, increasingly se-rious situation?
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