The Round Table, Vol. 5: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire; December 1914 to September 1915 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Round Table, Vol. 5: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire; December 1914 to September 1915

But this plan, carefully thought out and prepared as it was, was Spoiled by Belgium and England. By Belgium, who, though assured up to the last moment that her territory was safe, refused to bargain with her birthright of freedom and Open a way to her neighbour's heart, and by her resistance afforded the slow mobilizing French army a priceless respite. By England, who, also profiting by the delay, threw into France a small but admirable army and so strengthened the fighting line that the French were able to make that concentration of force round Paris which compelled the German retreat from the Marne.

Then the rulers of Germany fell back upon a second plan, which would give them what they most needed in a different way. They realized in practice what Treitschke and many other apostles of the Prussian school had often told them in the schools, that England was the real enemy of the Prussian design, that it was England who was the chief obstacle to their ambitions, and who in 1914 no less than in 1814 would spare no effort to prevent Europe from being mastered by a single Power. So their second plan was to win their way to Calais. For if England really was going to stand in their way, the war would not have been in vain if they could retain their hold on Belgium and the north-east corner of France, or even on Belgium alone. The possession of this territory at the end of the war would give Germany the strategic position she coveted for the future. France.

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