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IS WAR IMMINENT?

SIR EDWARD GREY'S VIEWS. The following' is an interesting passage from a speech recently delivered at Darlington by the British foreign secretary, Sir .Edward Grey: "The. sense, of the economic interdependence of nations is growing in all who have to do with industry, and tlifi proportion of thoso who have to do with industry, to the whole of the population is increasing rapidly in those States which arc most powerful. I said that without prosperous industries a country could riot be strong. I njeant strong in tho military and ncwal sense, and.it is true. It .is thoso nations, Which are most prosperous in industry which have the largest armaments, so 'large that the nations "are beginning to groan under the burden. Some people talk wildly as if war was imminent in a fewyears. I see no need for war, I-do not expect it. If a great war came it would for a time, in the countries concerned in it,- suspend industrial, economic and social questions, but after the war .there would come a reaction in which interest and development■ ill these internal questions would be quickened; and it is quite possible thht the . next country, if any, which -had , a great aiul successful war, unless it'were purely l , a wcjr of defence against aggression, would bo the first to have, a social revolution.. That is tho reflection whrli o<*iurs to-me whenever Ihear it said that any powerful Government might seek,'.to detract attention from internal troubles by foreign adventures. When we had taken the French colonies in the eighteenth 1 century the elder Jlirabeau said. "England has taken our colonics. She will now lose her own/ So it proved. So also now, the generation of great internal energv and force combined, with sudden relief-from external pressure which would be the Consequence of Successful war would probably be followed ,])y internal upheaval." .

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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 2

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IS WAR IMMINENT? Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 2

IS WAR IMMINENT? Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 2

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