International Relations; Eight Lectures Delivered in the United States in August, 1921
The book International Relations; Eight Lectures Delivered in the United States in August, 1921 was written by author Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922 Here you can read free online of International Relations; Eight Lectures Delivered in the United States in August, 1921 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is International Relations; Eight Lectures Delivered in the United States in August, 1921 a good or bad book?
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But we are not "foreign" to one another as France, Germany and Italy are foreign to each other. We know one an- other's ways, and we can discount what our newspapers say. You can laugh over any spiteful thing that might be said in the British press about this country, and if any such thing were ever to be said in an Ameri- can newspaper about England we likewise should dis- count it. Speaking broadly, it must be confessed that the press of all the nations taken together has done much to set the...m in an unlovely light to one another and said more to provoke enmity than to win friendship. In some cases newspapers have helped to make wars, and in not a few they have been used by unscrupulous statesmen to produce exasperation bringing war nearer. The press is more dangerous than the politicians, be- cause the latter can be made responsible to public opinion for the mischief they do, while the anonymous writer cannot. At present the scanty knowledge each people has of its neighbors puts each at the mercy of 144 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the press; and that is one of the reasons for trying to get the people to take more pains to understand foreign affairs.
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