. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. of Christendom. It will only come to an end when the intercourse of nations and peoples through embassies and foreign offices is replaced by an assembly of elected representatives in direct touch with their peoples. French imperialism during theperiod of the Armed Peace inEurope was naturally of a less con-fident type than the German. Itcalled itself nationalism ratherthan imperialism, and it set itself,by appeals to patriotic pride, tothwart the efforts of those socialistsand rationalists who sought to getinto touch vnt\\ l
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. of Christendom. It will only come to an end when the intercourse of nations and peoples through embassies and foreign offices is replaced by an assembly of elected representatives in direct touch with their peoples. French imperialism during theperiod of the Armed Peace inEurope was naturally of a less con-fident type than the German. Itcalled itself nationalism ratherthan imperialism, and it set itself,by appeals to patriotic pride, tothwart the efforts of those socialistsand rationalists who sought to getinto touch vnt\\ liberal elements inGerman life. It brooded upon theRevanche, the return match withPrussia. But in spite of that pre-occupation, it set itself to theadventure of annexation and ex-ploitation in the Far East andin Africa, narrowly escaping awar with Britain upon the Fashoda clash(1898), and it never relinquished a dreamof acquisitions in Syria. ^ Italy toocaught the imperialist fever; the bloodletting of Adowa cooled her for a time,and then she resumed in 1911 with a. TurMsh terrixxy nria{uxeiid. by S^poia lU. fey Greece v//A hy Bulgaria. Nzw autonomjcms ^. .,, of Kw; ^ i:^ BiilgariaiiteTTitory^acquired iy Rumama. war upon Turkey and the annexation of ^ Wilfred Scawen Blunt regards the English re-maining in Egypt, when they had pledged theniselvesto go, as the greatest cause of the troubles thatculminated in 1914. To pacify the French overEgypt, England connived at the French occupationof Morocco, which Germany had looked upon as hershare of North Africa. Hence Germanys bristlingattitude to France, and the revival in France of therevanche idea, which had died down. See BluntsMy Diaries, vol. i, September 30th, 1891.—A. C. charter by the Sultan to an Austro-German companyor syndicate for the taking over of the Tripoli-taine : a process which coiild only have ended bythe hoisting of the Imperial German flag on thesouthern shores of the Mediterranean, opposi
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