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The Project Gutenberg EBook of England and Germany, by Emile Joseph Dillon This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: England and Germany Author: Emile Joseph Dillon Release Date: July 6, 2009 [EBook #29338] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENGLAND AND GERMANY *** Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) ENGLAND AND GERMANY BY DR. E. J. DILLON WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. W. M. HUGHES, M.P. PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA BRENTANO'S NEW YORK CHAPMAN & HALL LTD. LONDON 1917 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BRUNSWICK ST., STAMFORD ST., S.E. 1, AND BUNGAY SUFFOLK TO H.S.H. ALICE PRINCESS OF MONACO THIS PARTIAL PRESENTMENT OF THE BEGINNINGS OF A WORLD CATACLYSM INTRODUCTION Behind any human institution there stand a few men--perhaps only one man--who direct its movement, protect its interests, or serve as its mouthpiece. This applies to nations. If we wish to know for what a nation stands and what are its ideals and by what means it seeks to realise them, we shall do well to know something of the men who lead its people or express their feelings. It is of vital importance that we should understand the attitude of every one of the nations--both friends and enemies--involved in this war. For in this way only can we know what is necessary to be done to achieve victory. And the remarkable man who has written this book knows those who lead the warring nations in this titanic conflict very much better than ordinary men know their own townsmen. Dr. Dillon has moved through the chancelleries of Europe. He has seen and heard what has been denied to all but very few. In the Balkans, that cauldron of racial passions which, overflowing, gave our enemies an ostensible cause for this war, he moved as though an invisible and yet keenly observant figure. He could claim the friendship of Venizelos and other Balkan statesmen. He has travelled as a monk throughout the mountain fastnesses, he has slept in th
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