The Soul of the War (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Soul of the WarOnly a few weeks before this black shadow of war had loomed up with its deadly menace a great party of German editors had returned our visit, and once again I had listened to speeches about the blood-brotherhood of the two nations, a little bored by the stale phrases, but glad to sit among these friendly Germans whom I had met in their own country. We clinked glasses again, sang God Save the King and the Wacht am Rhein, compared the character of German and English literature, of German and English women, clasped hands, and said, Auf wiederseh'en! Were we all liars in that room, and did any of the men there know that when words of friendship were on their lips there was hatred in their hearts and in each country a stealthy preparation for great massacres of men? Did any of those German editors hear afar off the thunderstrokes of the Krupp guns which even then were being tested for the war with France and England? I believe now that some of them must have known.Perhaps I ought to have known, too, remembering the tour which I had made in Germany two years before.It was after the Agadir incident, and I had been sent to Germany by my newspaper on a dovelike mission of peace, to gather sentiments of good will to England from prominent public men who might desire out of their intellectual friend ship to us to pour oil on the troubled waters which had been profoundly stirred by our challenge to Germany's foreign policy. I had a sheaf of introductions, which I presented in Berlin and Leipzig, Frankfort and Dusseldorf, and other German towns.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.