Great Britain and that can never be. Neutralize Ireland and it is
already accomplished.

One of the conditions of peace, and _for this reason_ the most
important condition of peace that a victorious Germany must impose
upon her defeated antagonist is that Ireland shall be separated
and erected into an independent European State under international
guarantees. England, obviously would resist such conditions to the
last, but then the last has already come before England would consent
to any peace save on terms she dictated.

A defeated England is a starved England. She would have to accept
whatever terms Germany imposed unless those terms provoked external
intervention on behalf of the defeated power.

The prize Germany seeks to win from victory is not immediate
territorial aggrandizement obtained from annexing British possessions,
not a heavy money indemnity wrung from British finance and trade
(although this she might have), but German freedom throughout the
world on equal terms with Britain. This is a prize worth fighting for,
for once gained the rest follows as a matter of course.

German civilization released from the restricted confines and unequal
position in which Britain had sought to pen it must, of itself win
its way to the front, and of necessity acquire those favoured spots
necessary to its wide development.

"This is the meaning of his (the German's) will for power; safety from
interference with his individual and national development. Only one
thing is left to the nations that do not want to be left behind in the