Excerpt from Peace With Empire: The ProblemGermany must be crushed.' To humiliate Germany would prevent any lasting peace.' So the war of phrases goes on in our ears to-day. And it is largely a war of phrases. For if one gets the people on either side to describe what sort of resettlement of Europe they would like to see after the war, one does not find much difference, so far as recasting the European system goes. No responsible person in England has suggested that Germany should be dismembered in the sense that regions genuinely German in race and sympathies should be torn away from the Empire. No one on the other side can suppose that a settlement involving the loss of Alsace and the Polish provinces would be contemplated for a, moment by Germany, except after a defeat so signal as to constitute in itself a pretty considerable humiliation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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