The German Empire's Hour of Destiny (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1914 Excerpt: ... I THE INEVITABLE CONFLICT BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY The British World Empire Can Only Be Saved By Germany's Overthrow An American, but at the same time a keen Anglo-Saxon, Homer Lea, recently published a book, The Day of the Saxon,1 in which he pictures the dangers which threaten the British world empire, inasmuch as England has lost so much of her fitness for war and has so neglected her war preparations, especially with regard to the maintenance of a sufficient army on land, that she is no longer in a position to protect her colossal possessions. "The i The Day of the Saxon. Homer Lea, Harper & Brothers, New York. Translated by Count E. Reventlow under the title of Des Britischen Reiches Schicksalstunde (Berlin, 1913; E. S. Mittler & Sohn). old ideals which produced the world empire have been laid aside. The warlike spirit is only of secondary consideration: it is hardly anything further than that spirit of commerce, slothful and satiated with the accumulation of things which are useless for national and racial progress." On the other hand this world empire, which extends over and controls all available corners of the earth, presents grave difficulties to the expansion of other nations, so that a conflict with those States which chiefly require expansion, namely, Germany and Japan, is unavoidable because assured communication with the oceans of the world, which is vital to their interests, furnishes the motive for such expansion, whereas, on the other hand, Russia still has vast territories at the disposal of her rapidly increasing population. Homer Lea considers Germany the most dangerous opponent of the British world empire, and in his view England should never have permitted the unification thereof. England should rather have utilized the disin...