The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War

THE TWO MAPS OF EUROPE
AND SOME OTHER ASPECTS OF THE GREAT WAR
BY HILAIRE BELLOC
LONDON C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED HENRIETTA STREET, W.C. 1915
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Ltd. At the Ballantyne Press London and Edinburgh
The six chapters of this little book discuss and explain six separate and most important phases of the present war. Every effort has been made to deal with the headings selected as comprehensively and as simply as possible, and it is hoped that, in this convenient form, the handbook will be welcomed by those who wish to follow the campaign with understanding. The various articles reprinted were written during the winter of the present year (1914-15), and many of the conclusions reached apply, therefore, to that period of the war only.
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Wherein the map of Europe, as it will be if Germany wins, is clearly defined and compared with the map of Europe re-arranged in accordance with the ideals of the Allies.
THE TWO MAPS OF EUROPE
It is everywhere admitted that the result of the great war must be either, upon the whole, to produce a new map of Europe upon the German model, or a new map of Europe upon the model suitable to the ideas of the Allies.
By this it is not meant that either ideal will be completely reached, but that in the settlement one or the other will certainly preponderate. Indeed, it is in the struggle between these two new maps of Europe as ideals that the motive of the war consists.
Now, before attempting to determine in a graphic fashion what those two ideals are—before, that is, trying to draw two maps which shall represent respectively the German goal and the goal of the Allies, we must lay down certain postulates which are not always recognized but which are certainly true.