PEACE AND WAR
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Peace is the greatest of British interests [3]
Peaceful intentions will not ensure peace [4]
Futility of Pacifism [6]
Causes of wars in general [8]
Causes of the American Civil War [10]
Influence of ideas of duty and self-sacrifice [11]
THE OUTBREAK OF WAR
July-August 1914 [13]
Reality or illusion [15]
The Serajevo murders [16]
Austria and Servia [17]
English efforts to preserve peace [18]
Mobilisation in Germany and Russia [19]
Questions of neutrality [19]
German Army enters Luxemburg, Belgium, and France [20]
General conflagration [20]
WHO WANTED WAR?
Why did war occur? [22]
Servia did not want war [22]
Neither did Russia or France [23]
Nor Belgium or England [25]
Austria wanted war with Servia alone [26]
Germany encouraged Austria to bring on war [29]
Germany desired war believing that England would remain neutral [29]
Austrian eleventh-hour efforts for peace frustrated by Germany [30]
Sir Edward Grey's miscalculation [31]
M. Sazonof thought war could have been avoided by plain speaking [32]
Sir Edward Grey's reasons against plain speaking [33]
Which was right? [34]