ABSTRACT
The fact is true that Germany always oppose the policy of limiting armaments, whether on land or sea. This is consonant with that whole militarist view of international politics which held in a more extreme and violent form in Germany than in any other country, but which is the creed of jingoes and imperialists everywhere. If the British Government succeeds in coming to an agreement with Germany on this question, they would have been bitterly assails by that party at home. Under the armed peace there can be no confidence. And that alone is sufficient to account for the breakdown of the Anglo-German negotiations, without supposing on either side a wish or an intention to make war. The facts shows clearly that Germany was challenging it could make the British supremacy at sea that determines to become a naval as well as a military Power and its policy is a menace to this country.
