in being and that mightier Dreadnought yet to be, the Anglo-Saxon
Alliance which Germany must fight if she is to get out.

Doubtless she has already a naval policy and the plans for a naval
war, for the fight will be settled on the sea, but the fate will be
determined on an island.

The Empire that has grown from an island and spread with the winds and
the waves to the uttermost shores will fight and be fought for on the
water and will be ended where it began, on an island.

That island, I believe, will be Ireland and not Great Britain.




Chapter III

THE BALANCE OF POWER


A conflict between England and Germany exists already, a conflict of
aims.

England rich, prosperous, with all that she can possibly assimilate
already in her hands, desires peace on present conditions of world
power. These conditions are not merely that her actual possessions
should remain intact, but that no other Great Power shall, by
acquiring colonies and spreading its people and institutions into
neighbouring regions, thereby possibly affect the fuller development