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A study of the armed peace may seem superfluous amid general war. The true causes of the present struggle worked none the less in the protracted rivalry which pre ceded it. The Serajevo murders broke the bonds of public law and goodwill, only because a decade of diplomatic strife had left them frayed and worn. During the early months of this war, in our mood of idealistic exaltation, we dwelt exclusively on the issues of nationality involved in Europe. The argument of this book traces the rivalry of the Great Powers primarily to economic motives, and especially to the struggle for the possession of monopolies, Concessions, and spheres of influence over seas These motives are more visibly at work to-day than they seemed to be in August, 1914. The war is protracted largely to decide whether Turkey shall be exploited by the Germans or partitioned among the Allies. The dismem'berment of austria-hungary may seem to be a demand inspired by the principle Of nationality. Behind that demand there lies, however, the resolve to weaken the enemy, to shut him Off from access to the East, to cut the road from Berlin to Bagdad and to prevent the creation Of Central Europe as an economic unity. Added to this Eastern issue is the question of the future possession of the German colonies, and the immense economic programme of the Paris Resolu tions. The idealistic issues have been overlaid, as the war went on, by questions of colonisation and trade, by com peting claims for economic predominance in the East, and by the threat of a tarifi struggle which will outlast the war. The issues which made the armed peace are infallibly shaping the course of the war itself. The issues of nation ality are, none the less, living and real, but they provoked a universal war only because the economic rivalries of the Great Powers lay behind them.
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A study of the armed peace may seem superfluous amid general war. The true causes of the present struggle worked none the less in the protracted rivalry which pre ceded it. The Serajevo murders broke the bonds of public law and goodwill, only because a decade of diplomatic strife had left them frayed and worn. During the early months of this war, in our mood of idealistic exaltation, we dwelt exclusively on the issues of nationality involved in Europe. The argument of this book traces the rivalry of the Great Powers primarily to economic motives, and especially to the struggle for the possession of monopolies, Concessions, and spheres of influence over seas These motives are more visibly at work to-day than they seemed to be in August, 1914. The war is protracted largely to decide whether Turkey shall be exploited by the Germans or partitioned among the Allies. The dismem'berment of austria-hungary may seem to be a demand inspired by the principle Of nationality. Behind that demand there lies, however, the resolve to weaken the enemy, to shut him Off from access to the East, to cut the road from Berlin to Bagdad and to prevent the creation Of Central Europe as an economic unity. Added to this Eastern issue is the question of the future possession of the German colonies, and the immense economic programme of the Paris Resolu tions. The idealistic issues have been overlaid, as the war went on, by questions of colonisation and trade, by com peting claims for economic predominance in the East, and by the threat of a tarifi struggle which will outlast the war. The issues which made the armed peace are infallibly shaping the course of the war itself. The issues of nation ality are, none the less, living and real, but they provoked a universal war only because the economic rivalries of the Great Powers lay behind them.
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