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Introduction
Whilst the technical expert from one century to another was engaged in investigating the problem of the navigation of the air, the jurist could afford to look on calm and unmoved as one experiment after anothe...
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Consequences of the Sovereingty Theory
The theory extending the authority of the sovereign state to the airspace above the territory, involves as a first consequence that, where the surface of the globe is without a sovereign master, the airspace o...
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Juridical Position of the Airspace
In this chapter we intend to consider the question as to which is the position the airspace takes actually in the law of nations, and which position it is to take in future. Must this be the same everywhere th...
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Introduction
We know things approximately.
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German Mentality
It is not as if Prussian militarism sat lightly on all Germany outside of Prussia. It was forced upon the unlucky race, willy-nilly. But gradually a virtue was made of necessity. Germany made bonne mine à mauvais...
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England’s Security a Thing of the Past. The Old Diplomacy
These are a few political and economic aspects. But there are others.
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Germany and European Colonisation
The Union of Germany in 1871, a Union of blood and iron, forged together by the warhammers of Moltke and Roon and Bismarck had, after a generation, brought an unheard-of advance in material prosperity. At the ...
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The East and the West
From time immemorial the great thinkers of Mankind have proclaimed ideas which, though clothed in different words, and elucidated by different metaphor, proved a common origin. The great value, attached to tho...
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Germany’s Moral Standard
If we wish to enquire into possible future developments, we are justified in considering that the war has shown us the true spirit of Germany clearer, better and more completely than anything else could have d...
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If Germany is not Vanquished
We have, so far, discussed possible future developments exclusively from the point of view, and on the assumption, that the Allied Powers would be victorious, and that they would subdue Germany, after having p...
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Ultra-Militarism Stops Progress
When comparing Germany to the other civilised nations during the last century or so we find that hardly one of the great inventions of modern times originated from Germany. We beg the reader to understand, tha...
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Nations and States
It is exceedingly difficult to define the meaning of the word nation, with regard to the sense in which it is generally used, because everything depends upon whether the sense is political or ethnographic.
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The United States of Europe
If the present war has brought home any truth to the majority of thinking men and women, it is certainly this, that the state of Europe and of the world in general, is one of international anarchy, which no tr...
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Protection and Freetrade
Manufactured goods are kept out of countries by protective tariffs. — Tariffs do not always show the same effect everywhere. As a rule, however, in very large countries, like Russia and the United States, and ...
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Neutral Holland
Many things which are said in this little volume have no doubt been said before, or thought before, by others. We are all children of our time, and whether we will or not, our acts and our thoughts have to mov...
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Europe after the First 18 Months of War
At the Mansion House Banquet, on the 9th of November 1914, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland declared, amongst many other matters of great importance, that England would not sheathe her sword, un...
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Germany Disarmed
Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that Germania, after having been thoroughly beaten, repents of the error of her ways, abolishes her autocratic form of Government and sets up a Republic, in which her s...
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French and British Responsibilities
We should here mention Germany’s predecessor in Ultra-Militarism, megalomania and lust of conquest, France. The symptoms of the French revolution, partly engendered by fear (of Austrian intervention) were thos...
