xxxii. How to pay for the War 



been taught to regard war as a paying business, and the 

 mihtary party still wants the public of our chief enemy to 

 continue in that belief.' 



Germany has for long been intensely jealous of 

 England, the Earl went on to say in his decisive, racy 

 manner, bringing out his points and driving them home — 

 ** burning them in," to use his own phrase, one by one with 

 a vigour that astonished but pleased the huge audience 

 that faced him immensely — and has for many years been 

 working with infinite cunning for the undoing of the 

 British Empire and British Trade, and thereby securing 

 the military domination of the world. 



Germany hoped to attain her ends by "peaceful penetra- 

 tion." She deliberately prepared and brought on this war 

 when peaceful penetration was not going fast enough. 

 This is why I am so keen on displacing the educated 

 German, one-third merchant and two-thirds spy and 

 military strategist, throughout Latin America. 



Germany aimed at getting what she wanted by seizing 

 Belgium and the coast of Flanders, invading and defeating 

 France and Russia, and by establishing the great scheme 

 known as " Central Europe" or " Mittel Europa." This 

 immense belt of territory, stretching from the North Sea 

 to the Persian Gulf and served throughout by the Bagdad 

 Railway, would then be entirely under the control of 

 Berlin, and Germany would thus dominate and divide 

 Europe. Germany could then destroy Britain's position 

 in Egypt and the East, seize her trade route to India and 

 eventually wrest India itself from Britain. 



' As if to make me emphasize this portion of the book (which I did not 

 mean to introduce, hut having heard Lord Denbigh speak I feel loth to 

 leave it out) a lively cannonading is going on over my head whilst writing, 

 between the German airmen and our own '' somewhere in England," on 

 the evening of the day after the Chamber of Commerce had been told 

 about the war aims of Germany, especially those of Prussia. 



