CONTENTS
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I:
THE GREAT PERIL
Post-war Europe Revisited—Impoverishment
and Taxation—Race Hatreds Unchanged—How
War Is Begun—Vengeance Is
the Lord's—The Churches and the
League of Nations.
II:
EUROPE STILL ARMING
Marshal Foch and the Cause of the Great
War—Navies for Defence—Strength of
Europe's Armies—Europe More Militant
Than Ever.
III:
THE ERUPTION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Dropping Hot Cinders in the Balkans—Seeing
War in Pictures—Force the Arbiter
of Right and Wrong—Limiting the
Activities of the League—Bottling up
the Adriatic.
IV:
IS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS A SUCCESS?
Triumphs of the League—All Great
Powers Should Be in It—America and
the League—Treaty and the League—Ending
the Arbitrament of the Sword.
V:
THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES AND ITS CRITICS
Treaty Criticised But Not Read—America
and the Treaty—Labour and the Treaty—Treaty
and League of Nations Interwoven.
VI:
1922
War Dance Still in the World—Ultimatum
Instead of Conference—Cannes
and Genoa—Enemies at Council Table—Talk
of an American Loan.
VII:
WHAT IS FRANCE AFTER?
Clemenceau and the Rhine—Annexation
and Revenge—Anglo-American Guarantee
to France—Poincaré and the Rhine.
VIII:
WHAT IS FRANCE AFTER?
Versailles Treaty and the Rhine Frontier—Foch
and the Political Frontier—American
and British Pressure—Sham
Republic of the Rhine.
IX:
WHAT IS FRANCE AFTER?
Bonar Law and Poincaré—Productive
Sanctions and Reparations—Moratorium
for Germany Fails—Britain Stands Aside.
X:
REPARATIONS
Reparations and the Treaty—Capacity to
Pay—Reparations Commission Changed—America's
Vacant Chair—Worthless "C"
Bonds for Britain.
XI:
MR. HUGHES'S NEW HAVEN SPEECH
Secretary Hughes's New Haven Speech,
a Timid Deliverance—Impartial Tribunal
of Experts—Offer of American Help.
XII:
THE FRENCH INVASION OF THE RUHR
What Germany Has Paid—"In Technical
Default"—Wrong Way to Make Germany
Pay—Ruining German Industry—France's
Secret Aim.
XIII:
LOST OPPORTUNITIES
French Failure in the Ruhr—Wild Oats
of Reparation—The Ruhr and the League
of Nations—The Bankers' Conference.
XIV:
FRENCH SCHEMES
Italy and the Ruhr—Iron Ore of Lorraine
and German Coal Deposits—Loucheur
and Hugo Stinnes—German
Workmen in Bondage.
XV:
THE QUICKSAND
Loucheur and the Ruhr—Lack of Leader
in France—Disregard of Allies—Aggression
and Security—Failure of Bonar Law.
XVI:
THE FIRST GERMAN OFFER
Does France Seek a Settlement?—Demand
for Submission in the Ruhr—German
Offer Inadequate—Keeping America
Out—Treaty Idea Not Followed.
XVII:
THE SECOND GERMAN NOTE
German Offer and the Loan to Germany—Can
Berlin Assent to Invasion?—Reintroducing
America—Weakening Debtors
Ability to Pay.
XVIII:
THE NAPOLEONIC DREAM
European Mind Unhinged—What Every
Frenchman Knows—Pickwick Follows
Snodgrass—Germany May Collapse—Undoing
the Work of Bismarck.
XIX:
IS IT PEACE?
Stresemann Man of Energy—Chaos Ahead
for Germany—British Unemployment—France
a Self-contained Country—Balfour's
Note a Generous Offer.
XX:
WHAT NEXT?
Pen-and-ink Jousting—Tory "Diehards"
and France—Poincaré and the Dove of
Peace—What "Pay and Stay" Means—France's
Minimum and Britain's Surrender.
XXI:
THE BRITISH DEBT TO AMERICA
Borrowing for Allies—British Taxpayer's
Burden—Creditor Nation Now Debtor—Britain
Must Pay Her Way—Her Currency
Not Discredited—Inter-Allied Debts.
XXII:
INTER-ALLIED DEBTS
Discovery of the Middle West—Legend
of British Wealth—1,400,000 Unemployed—The
Balfour Note—Can Britain Afford
To Be More Generous Than America?
XXIII:
THE BRITISH ELECTIONS
Minority Rule and Moral Authority—National
Liberals at the Polls—Danger
of England's Electoral System—Labour's
Prospects—Warring Liberal Factions.
XXIV:
HOW DEMOCRACY WORKS
Growth of Britain's Electorate—Women
Suffrage—New Voters Without a Party—Absentees
from the Polls—Freaks of
the Group System.
XXV:
POLITICAL REALITIES
Post-war Legislation—The Irish Cauldron—Labour
and Capital—Agriculture and
Industry—Socialism Courting Fascism.
XXVI:
SHOULD WE MAKE PEACE WITH RUSSIA?
Pre-revolutionary Russia—Corruption and
Betrayal—"Shaking Hands with Murder"—If
Turkey, Why Not Russia?—Need for
Russia's Exports.
XXVII:
PALESTINE AND THE JEWS
Stupidity of Anti-Semitism—Blighting Rule
of the Turk—The Jew as a Cultivator—Race
Equality in Palestine—Zionist Declaration.
XXVIII:
THE TREATY OF LAUSANNE
Turkish Fezzes in the Air—Blow of Prestige
of the West—Massacres and Misgovernment—Fertile
Country a Wilderness—Had
Wilson Succeeded—Lausanne a
Milestone, not a Terminus.
XXIX:
THE SIGNING OF THE IRISH TREATY
Gladstone's Home-rule Fight—Scene in
No. 10 Downing Street—Griffith and Collins—To
Sign or Not to Sign—Childers,
Sullen and Disappointed—Treaty a Pillar
of Hope for Future.
XXX:
PROHIBITION
The Lesson from Russia—Britain Not
Convinced—Experiments Difficult—Public
Uneducated—Outlook Not Encouraging.
XXXI:
UNOFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF "OFFICIAL" INFORMATION
Julius Cæsar Began It—Self Defence and
Secret Information—The Versailles Decision—General
Rules and Special Cases.
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
