That Sounds At First Sight Fair 'enough, But The Proposal
was made one-sided by a clause stipulating that the duty of neutrality arising out of the treaty should have no obligation "in so far as it may not be reconcilable with existing......
Count Metternich Thought This Inadequate, And Had Another...
a formula. Finally, after a good deal of discussion, Sir Edward Grey proposed the following :— "The two Powers being mutually desirous of securing peace and friendship between......
We Are No Think-and-thin Friends Of The System Of Publie
diplomacy, but it seems to us that this is one of the cases in which the Government should have explained the situation exactly to the country, and have warned it of what was......
On Wednesday The Foreign Office Published A Statement...
Anglo-German negotiations of 1912—those in the course of which Lord Haldane visited Berlin on behalf of the British Government, The object of the Foreign Office in making this......
We Have Not A Word To Say Against The Manner
in which the negotiations were conducted, either by the Foreign Office or by Lord Haldane. What amazes us, however, is that, after the Germans had allowed us to see so plainly......
Bank Rate, 5 Per Cant., Changed From 6 P.c. Aug.
8th, 1914.......
This Is One Of The Most Successful Examples Of What
we may term long-distance prophecy ever recorded. In 1882 Germany's naval and colonial policy was undeveloped—an affair of dreamers, irresponsible journalists, and Professors......
It Was Afterwards They Failed. They Averted Their Gaze From
instead of facing the evil and menacing thing which they had unearthed in Berlin. They were seduced somehow into accepting the paoificist's formula, "You are a party to a crime......
The German Government Try To Make Out That We Rejected
a very reasonable offer of reciprocal neutrality from Germany. What really happened was that the Germans proposed a " tricky " treaty of neutrality with us, which would have......
Sir Edward Grey And Lord Haldane Of Course Refused To
walk into this rather obvious trap. They said that there was to be a guarantee of absolute neutrality on one side but not on the other. Upon this Sir Edward Grey made a very......
The Times Of Monday Announces A Scheme For Providing The
soldiers at the front with suitable reading in the form of broadsheets or flyleaves—books for physical reasons being out of the question. The scheme, which was suggested by......
A Correspondent Of The Morning Post Of Wednesday Supplies...
following extract from a letter written by General Gordon in 1882 to Mr. James R. Purdy :— " Every Briton should think of the future of his country and cause each one to insist......
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