Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ TEN YEARS AFTER _Ten Years After: A Reminder_ :: :: _By PHILIP GIBBS_ :: :: [Illustration: Decoration] _LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW_ 1924 CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD v I.—THE WORLD WAR 7 II.—THE UNCERTAIN PEACE 61 III.—THE PRESENT PERILS 140 IV.—THE HOPE AHEAD 167 FOREWORD Since the last words of this book were written the political temper of the nation has been tested by the General Election and has been revealed by the mighty majority of the Conservatives, the dismissal of the first Labour Government, and the all but mortal blow to the Liberal Party. It would be a bad thing for the British people if that sweeping change were the sign of reaction to wooden-headed principles of autocratic rule and class legislation. It would be a worse thing for the world. But the new Conservative Government will have no support from the majority of those who voted for it if it interprets its power as a mandate for militarism, jingoism, or anti-democratic acts. The verdict of the ballot box was, certainly, not in favour of any black reaction, but in condemnation of certain foreign, revolutionary, and subversive influences with which the Labour Party were believed, fairly or unfairly, to be associated.