CAUSE OF THE GREAT WAR
“The war when it came was a war for Lite liberty of peoples, not on account of the violation of Belgium, which was a strategic blunder on the part of the German Government and no move, but because the peoples of Soutli-eastern Europe had been fighting fur their freedom from its beginning,” saicj Professor Elie Halevv, of Paris University, in his Rhodes Memorial lecture.’ “What was responsible for the war was the political rottenness of the Austro-Hun-garian Empire, the fact that the principle of nationality, renewed and rejuvenated in Asia, was now at work in Austria-Hungary, which was about to split into' a- number of independent nationalities. Could such an important event have happened without some kind of convulsion: I do not. think it could have happened without a miracle of some sort. European diplomacy could not work that miracle and so we had the .war.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 29 July 1929, Page 7
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151CAUSE OF THE GREAT WAR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 29 July 1929, Page 7
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