Germany And the War, Not a Defense But An Explanation
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It was, and is, the situation of Germany in the middle of Europe, especially as long as she was so powerless and torn up into a number of small States, that makes it so convenient to settle all the troubles of the whole of Europe on its territory. England's Sway of the Seas. England has had a large standing navy ever since the times of Henry VIII., in the sixteenth century, and it has used that navy to maintain its absolute sway of the sea by always fighting the next best man, be /V it the Fren...chman, the Spaniard, the Dutchman or the Russian. Russia and Austria have had their armies for centuries back, and so had Spain and especially France. There was no German army because there was no uni- fied Germany. We had a Prussian army only recon- structed in 1863 and the minor forces of 25 small States. After having destroyed Napoleon's power better days would have been expected for my country, but quite the reverse was the case. Three great diplomatists combined to keep Germany in her weakened condition, Prinz Metternich, the Austrian Prime Minister ; Prince Talleyrand, the versatile French envoy, and Lord Palmerston.
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