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George Gilbert Aimé Murray. The Problem of Foreign Policy
The Problem of Foreign Policy
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE PROBLEM. OF FOREIGN POLICY
CHAPTER I. GERMANY AND FRANCE
I. The Predicament of Germany
II. The Position of France
III. The Solution
CHAPTER II. THE EAST
I. Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India
II. An Eastern Policy
CHAPTER III. RUSSIA AND ITS BORDERS
I. The Civil War
II. Russia's Neighbours
CHAPTER IV. PRE-WAR AND POST-WAR CAUSES. OF STRIFE
I. Armaments
II. Markets and Food
CHAPTER V. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
THE END
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George Gilbert Aimé Murray
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I hope I have put this statement forward without any malice or party feeling. The state of the world is far too serious to permit of either. And I hope that the profound and burning indignation which I undoubtedly feel has not biased my judgment. In any case, the conclusion that I wish to draw is not a personal but a general one. I doubt if such action would have been possible before the war in any constitutional statesman, not to speak of a clever and humane man like Mr. George. I doubt if the public opinion of any nation would have endured it. A nation in which such conduct is tolerated, and even approved, ought surely to pause and bethink itself. For it is not a particular reckless or unfortunate act which is thus condoned; it is a way of behaviour. It is a way of behaviour which has its origin in the methods of war, and of which the characteristic is that it gives the unscrupulous man the advantage over the scrupulous man, the cheat over the honest player, the violent and the criminal over those who obey the law. It fosters exactly those things which it is the business of civilized society to prevent. There are always lawless and dishonest men in every large community, as there are criminals in every army. There are always men who make profit out of their neighbours' extremity, who use advertisement to stifle truth, who jeer at all that is higher than themselves. But in a good social order they are not influential. They acquire power only in a society which, in external conduct, is losing its traditional standards and inwardly, in the words of Tolstoy's great condemnation, has forgotten God.
My criticism here is directed against my own country, and in particular against the British Prime Minister, not in the least because I have any anti-British bias. On the contrary, I think that in most of the international problems of Europe the influence of Great Britain, and in particular of the British Prime Minister, is generally an influence for good, though not nearly such a strong and clear influence as it might be. I confine these criticisms to our own policy because the scolding of foreign countries is a notoriously profitless task. The only criticism that has any chance of being useful is that of matters for which the critic or his readers have some degree of responsibility.
