If There Were No Navies (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from If There Were No Navies "What a blessing it would be if there were no cost fleets to be maintained by the nations, great and small! Consider the amount of solid good which could be achieved if the vast sum of £200, 000, 000, which the navies cost each year, could be set free to be spent on social reform, or on education, or in bringing the sick back to life, or in elevating the masses!" That is the cry which was frequently heard right down to the day when Armageddon occurred. In May, 1914, the National Peace Council (London) published a pamphlet entitled "The War Traders, " and the author, Mr. George Herbert Ferris, writing no doubt from sincere conviction, summed up his conclusions by stating that "of actual war, we may say, as of famine, cholera and plague, that throughout the West, the worst hour is passed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.