This Perilous Year

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Excerpt from This Perilous Year: A Report on the State of the People of the UnionIn this overturned world of today there are seven Great Powers, by that meaning that there are seven organizations of human beings better equipped than any other such organizations to murder men and women wholesale, on land, on sea, under the sea and in the air. It isonot difficult for any of us to recall the names of these seven great military powers: the British Com monwealth Of Nations, the French Empire, the German Reich, the Japanese Empire, the United States, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the Kingdom of Italy. Of these seven, four are gorged with landed possessions. The British Empire sprawls all over the earth. Although it is not generally known, the French Empire is a close second in Size. Russia covers the northern half of two continents, and the United States dominates the whole western hemisphere. There remain three Of the seven whose populations are congested, whose natural resources are limited and whose national ambitions and aspirations are denied. These Of course, are Japan, Italy and Germany. There are three latent wars in the determination Of the leaders Of each of these three countries to secure for their people better places in the sun. The seventy million Japanese, confined to tiny islands whose combined Size is approximately that of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida and whose arable land is less than that which Cal ifornia enjoys, constitute an explosive so great that the League Of Nations quailed before it. The expansion Of Japan is already taking place. First Korea, then Manchukuo and now a part Of China fall under her dominion. It seems quite possible that five great provinces Of China - Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi, Hopei and Shantung will shortly be set up as a dependency Of Nippon. The expansion of Italy is also in process of effectuation Her forty two million people, living in a land of less than one hundred and twenty thousand square miles, or just about the Size Of Georgia and Florida combined and enjoying resources of an exceedingly limited character, have taken the shortest wayout of their dilemma and, under the leadership Of a modern Caesar, are reaching out for new lands and new resources. These, most unhappily, lie very close to the medulla Oblongata of the British Empire.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.