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    Deutschland Über Allah
    Deutschland Über Allah
    Deutschland Über Allah
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    Deutschland Über Allah

    By E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Deutschland Über Allah - E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Deutschland Über Allah, by E. F. Benson

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      Title: Deutschland Über Allah

      Author: E. F. Benson

      Release Date: July 1, 2013 [EBook #43073]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLAH ***

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      DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLAH

      DEUTSCHLAND

      ÜBER ALLAH

      BY

      E. F. BENSON

      HODDER AND STOUGHTON

      LONDON     NEW YORK     TORONTO

      MCMXVII

      DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLAH

      I T was commonly said at the beginning of this war that, whatever Germany’s military resources might be, she was hopelessly and childishly lacking in diplomatic ability and in knowledge of psychology, from which all success in diplomacy is distilled. As instances of this grave defect, people adduced the fact that apparently she had not anticipated the entry of Great Britain into the war at all, while her treatment of Belgium immediately afterwards was universally pronounced not to be a crime merely, but a blander of the stupidest sort. It is perfectly true that Germany did not understand, and, as seems likely in the light of innumerable other atrocities, never will understand, the psychology of civilised peoples; she has never shown any signs up till now, at any rate, of having got the hang of it at all. But critics of her diplomacy failed to see the root-fact that she did not understand it merely because it did not interest her. It was not worth her while to master the psychology of other civilised nations, since she was out not to understand them but to conquer them. She had all the information she wanted about their armies and navies and guns and ammunition neatly and correctly tabulated. Why, then, since this was all that concerned her, should she bother her head about what they might feel on the subject of gas-attacks or the torpedoing of neutral ships without warning? As long as her fumes were deadly and her submarines subtle, nothing further concerned her.

      But Europe generally made a great mistake in supposing that she could not learn psychology and the process of its distillation into diplomacy when it interested her. The psychology of the French and English was a useless study, for she was merely going to fight them, but for years she had been studying with an industry and a patience that put our diplomacy to shame (as was most swiftly and ignominiously proven when it came into conflict with hers) the psychology of the Turks. For years she had watched the dealings of the Great Powers with Turkey, but she had never really associated herself with that policy. She sat quietly by and saw how it worked. Briefly it was this. For a hundred years Turkey had been a Sick Man, and for a hundred years he had been kept alive in Europe by the sedulous attentions of the Physician-Powers, who dared not let him die for fear of the stupendous quarrels which would instantly arise over his corpse. So

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