Chapter 5

PEACE AND NEUTRALITY 178

Personal liberty, not creature comforts, the ulterior springs of action of the common man of the democratic nations, 178.

--No change of spiritual state to be looked for in the life-time of the oncoming generation, 185.

--The Dynastic spirit among the peoples of the Empire will, under the discipline of modern economic conditions, fall into decay, 187.

--Contrast of class divisions in Germany and England, 192.

--National establishments are dependent for their continuance upon preparation for hostilities, 196.

--The time required for the people of the Dynastic States to unlearn their preconceptions will be longer than the interval required for a new onset, 197.

--There can be no neutral course between peace by unconditional surrender and submission or peace by the elimination of Imperial Germany and Japan, 202.

--Peace by submission not practicable for the modern nations, 203.

--Neutralisation of citizenship, 205.

--Spontaneous move in that direction not to be looked for, 213.

--Its chances of success, 219.

--The course of events in America, 221.