The Stakes of DiplomacyH. Holt, 1915 - 235 Seiten |
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administration adventurers Africa Algeciras Alsace-Lorraine ambitions American arbitration backward countries Balkan Banco di Roma become Benghazi British called capitalists China civilization clash colonial commerce concessionaires Congo Congress Court created danger deal defensive democracy democratic differences diplo diplomatic Dwight Harris economic Empire England Entente ernment Europe European exists exploit fact feel fight force foreign affairs France French friction frontiers German German Empire groups Hague human idea imperial interests international government internationalism Italia Irredenta Italian legislature liberals live loyalty Lüderitz Lusitania means ment military mind modern Monroe Doctrine Moroccan Morocco nations native negotiations officials Open Door organization pacifist patriotism peace Persia prestige pretensions problem protection public opinion real estate secure seems Sir Edward Grey situation Socialist solid South sovereign sovereignty stakes of diplomacy territory thing tion tional to-day trade Tripoli union United weak whole Wilson world politics
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Seite 71 - The business men who take up the local traffic in merchandising, litigation, church enterprise, and the like, commonly begin with some share in this real-estate speculation. This affords a common bond and a common ground of pecuniary interest, which commonly masquerades under the name of local patriotism, public spirit, civic pride, and the like. This pretense of public spirit is so consistently maintained that most of these men come presently to believe in their own professions on that head. Pecuniary...
Seite 77 - When the Triple Entente compelled Germany to recedein the Moroccan affair of 1911, the rage of the German people was not due to a counting of their economic losses. They were furious, not that they had lost Morocco, but that they had lost the dispute. There is small doubt that the masses of people in no country would risk war to secure ,mining concessions in Africa. But the choice is never presented to • them that way. Each contest for economic privileges appears to the public as a kind of sporting...