South Africa and the War

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from South Africa and the War: A Lecture Delivered at Stellenbosch, 25 September, 1914 State, her neutrality being guaranteed by solemn treaty engagements to which all the powers, including Germany, were a party. The position of Germany really dominated the European situation. With a large and growing population amounting to sixty-five millions, she was hemmed in on every side by rival nations, and by neutral States, such as Holland, Belgium and Switzerland. Territorial expansion in Europe being forbidden, she turned to trade, and in the period since the Franco - German \var converted Germany into a workshop, in many branches of which, notably in that of chemical production, she surpassed England and other countries. Her commence was equally successful and in all the markets of the. World claimed and obtained a large share. In her mercantile marine, her progress was no less remarkable. Some of the finest steamers, and what is even more so, some of the finest sailing vessels in the world belong to the German mercantile marine. The whole of this fabric of enterprise and industry was built up on a huge system of credit, financed largely by Russian and French money. No country had made greater progress. No country had given great hostages for peace than Germany. 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.