The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National AdvantageAngell, Norman
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The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage
Angell, Norman
Commercial policy; Disarmament; Imperialism; War; War, Cost of
Critics, arguments of, against "The Great Illusion," 358-359
Cuba, War of, financial effect of, to Spain, 241
_Daily Mail_, 45-49, 214-215, 253, 330
D'Arbeux, Captain, 214
Dawson, Harbutt, 256
Defence: Navy League on, 345;
the necessity of, 346;
problem of, considered, 353
Demolins, Edmond, 258
Déroulède, advocate of war, 216
Dervishes, appreciation of, as fighters, 289;
W.H. Steevens quoted on, 289-290
Despot, financial embarrassment of the, 273-274
Despotism, the reasons for poverty of, 274
Dilke, Sir Charles, 116
Domination. _See_ Conquest
Dreyfus case, _Times_ quoted on, 250-252
Duel, survival and abandonment of, 201-204
Economics. _See_ Finance
Emigration, statistics of, for Germany, 100
Emotion, need for the control of, 377
Empiricism the curse of political thinking, 262
England. _See_ Britain
Environment, the rôle of, in the formation of character, 218
Faguet, advocate of war, 216
Farrar, Dean, advocate of war, 166
Farrer, 42
Fian, Dr., 208
Finance:
interdependence of credit-built position of, on German invasion, 31;
investment secure in small States, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43;
in its relation to industry, 54-56;
position of Bank of England on German invasion, 56-58;
effect on bank rate of financial crisis in New York, 58-59;
effect of repudiation in South American States, 77-78;
why repudiation is unprofitable, 78-79;
cause of bank crisis in United States, 79;
Withers's appreciation of English bankers, 80;
Lavisse on Germany's financial crisis, 96;
the meaning of "the money of a nation," 172;
physical force replaced by economic pressure, 269;
economic and physical force in their relation to money, 273;
British methods of enforcing financial obligations in South
America, 303;
organization of capital, 318;
Bank of England helped by Bank of France, 318;
internationalization of, 318-319;
why a Western bank ceased to be robbed, 337-338;
_Spectator_ quoted on economic interdependence, 356-357.
_See also_ Wealth
Fisher, Admiral, 350
Fleet. _See_ Navy
Force: the diminishing factor of, 185, 263;
co-operation and the advantage of, 263;
justification of, by police, 264-265;
replaced by economic pressure, 269;
in its relation to slavery, 269-270;
the general domination of, 270-271;
Herbert Spencer quoted on limitation implied by physical, 271-272;
difference between economic and physical, 273-275
France: Max Wirth on her position ftper Franco-German War, 95;
Bismarck on, 97-98;
standard of comfort in, higher than in Germany, 101;
financial superiority of, 102;
colonial administration of the Méline régime, 121-124;
supposed benefit of "expansion" to, 139-143;
a more military nation than Germany, 225-226;
conscription in, 226;
physical results of Napoleonic wars in, 238;
cause of failure of expansion in Asia, 240;
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