THREE GOVERNING IDEAS
Situation at the death of Queen Victoria [207]
Comfort and security are not synonymous [208]
Two problems absorbed public attention [209]
Social and Constitutional Reform [209]
A third problem, security, was overlooked [210]
Social Reform intrinsically the most important [211]
The urgent need of peace [212]
Earnestness of public opinion [212]
How it was baulked by circumstances [213]
Limitations of popular judgment [214]
Want of leadership [216]
Strangulation of sincerity by party system [218]
The artificial opposition of three great ideas [221]
POLICY AND ARMAMENTS
The aim of British policy [223]
Organised and unorganised defences [223]
Policy depends on armaments, armaments on policy [225]
Difficulty of keeping these principles in mind [226]
Diplomacy to-day depends more than ever on armaments [228]
The sad example of China [229]
Policy should conform to national needs [230]
Dangers threatening British security (1901-1914) [231]
The Committee of Imperial Defence [232]
Reasons of its comparative failure [234]
Parliament and the people were left uneducated [235]
Naval preparations were adequate [236]
Military preparations were absurdly inadequate [237]
Our Foreign policy rested on an entirely false assumption as regards the adequacy of our Army [238]
THE BALANCE OF POWER
Security required that we should take account of Europe [241]
German aim—the suzerainty of Western Europe [243]
Maintenance of the Balance of Power [244]
This is the unalterable condition of British security [245]
This need produced the Triple Entente [247]
Splendid isolation no longer compatible with security [249]
Meaning of a defensive war [249]
Defence of north-eastern frontier of France essential to British security [250]