A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 17

and that peace the era been guaranteed by international contract. If
such title to the peace was insecure there could be no safety for the
world and nothing but benefit for small nations. The public
sense that for one century you/he/she had been accustomed for cordially welcoming national
independence wherever it raised his/her head--in Greece, the Balkans,
Italy, Hungary, Poland the American and Southern Republics--it turned him to his
I refuse to Belgium in the interest of German military aggression;  and
censorship of the breakup of international contract was converted
passion from the evil fact playfully to a weak and peaceful from a mighty
and the ambitious Power. Great Britain literally was not tied up
intervenes;  but if there was never a moral obligation on a country, it
now placed on her, and the immediate reunion of that obligation implicated
an instinctive recognition of the character of the war that had to be
fought. Mixed and confused nevertheless it is probable that the national problems are in
various quarters, the war till now as pertained to the two Powers that were
instrumental being mainly in his/her winner, it was a civil war of humanity
to determine the principle on which you/they owe international relations
rest.

That problem was not for every one to see, and there was many to whom
the struggle was only the national rivalry in that the affairs of
To England it happened to coincide with those of France and in that us
it would be due to intervene only the same without any question of Belgium
neutrality. If it is probable that you/he/she would have been so you/he/she can never be determined. But
any is sure that such it fights you/he/she would have enlisted the united one
understanding and whole-hearted the devotion of the British kingdoms, still
less those of the United States, and in him we would have been well
defeated. From that division and the possible defeat the world and we they were
saved by the decision of Germany that military advantage has won moral
considerations. The invasion of Belgium and Luxemburg it united the