CONTENTS
| Preface | [v] |
| I. Germany and France | [1] |
| I. the predicament of germany | [1] |
| II. the position of france | [33] |
| III. the solution | [42] |
| II. The East | [58] |
| I. syria, mesopotamia, egypt, and india | [58] |
| II. an eastern policy | [70] |
| III. Russia and its Borders | [80] |
| I. the civil war | [82] |
| II. russia's neighbours | [90] |
| IV. Pre-War and Post-War Causes of Strife | [98] |
| I. armaments | [100] |
| II. markets and food | [107] |
| V. The League of Nations | [114] |
| Books for Further Reading | [125] |
THE PROBLEM
OF FOREIGN POLICY
CHAPTER I
GERMANY AND FRANCE
I. The Predicament of Germany
A friend of mine was recently travelling in Germany in a third-class railway carriage. The engine was slow and in lack of oil. The carriages, once so clean, warm, and well lighted, were unlit, dirty, and bitterly cold. There was an air of broken nerves and misery among the passengers, and one woman was still sobbing from some indignity offered to her by a foreign official in the occupied area. Presently an old gentleman, apparently a lawyer of some eminence, broke out: "A reckoning must come. My little grandchildren are drinking in revenge with their mother's milk. In thirty years or thereabouts we shall settle accounts with France, and then we shall make"—he swept the air with his hand—"tabula rasa!"