HAD THE WAR COME IN 1911!
"It ie indeed curious to reflect on the difference ■which a little alteration .in dates might have made in this war," 6ays the Manchester Guardian. . " Had it come in 1911, as so nearly happened., the submarine would in all probability have flayed a very email part and airmanship a very minor part. "Had it been delayed another five years it is possible that the submarine would have been the decisive factor at sea, aftd quite conceivable that the airship would have become a determining element in- the entire campaign. ■ " But these are inventions still iri their infanoy which intimately- affect our position— far more intimately than that of any land power They have linked our interest far ' more closely than of old , to, the Continent, thus illustrating that general -.'tightening-- up of State relations which has made the world physically one before it Tiad become morally one, and which is therefore one of the deeper causes of international unrest."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 10
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