In believing that the eventual participation of Great Britain was certain, even if there were no Belgian question, Germany was right. The violation of the neutrality of Belgium was not the cause, but the occasion, of Great Britain's entry into the war. It was, however, a most fortunate opportunity for the British Cabinet to secure popular sympathy and support in declaring war upon Germany. For it is certain that Great Britain ought not to have delayed entering the war. The nation might have awakened too late to the fact that the triumph of Germany in Europe would menace her national existence. There is no room in the world for the amicable dwelling side by side of Anglo-Saxon idealism and German militarism. One or the other must perish.
In August, 1914, the only way to have avoided the catastrophe of a general European war would have been to allow Germany to make, according to her own desires and ambitions, the new map of Europe.
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Abdul-Hamid deposed as Sultan, [185]
Adana massacres, [190]
Adrianople, invested by Bulgarians in Balkan War, [292]; captured by combined Servian and Bulgarian armies, [313]; Turks reoccupy, [349]
Agadir expedition reopens the Moroccan question in 1911, [78]; terms of the two treaties signed by France and Germany, [81]
Agram and the Serbo-Croat movement, [147-8]