Carnegie Endowment For International Peace Preliminary Economic Studies Of The War No 4

Author : Carnegie Endowment for Internat History
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528350495
Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book Preliminary Economic Studies of the War (Classic Reprint) written by Carnegie Endowment for Internat History and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Preliminary Economic Studies of the War President studv is one of the series of preliininarv var studies planned the Carnegie Endowment for Inter national l'eace to assist in showing' our own people some of the early experiences, policies. And effects of the war. It sets forth the tinancial experience of (ireat Britain from the beginningr of the war to the spring of llllb'. The attention of the student of llritish efforts and experience will be arrested at once bv several important points in the story. He will he struck first with the immensity of the burden which the British people have volun tarily assumed in defense of their empire. Their ideals and their international obligations. If before the war anyone had prophe sied that even so wealthy a people as the British could or would submit to war expenditures on so stupendous a scale. He would have been laughed at. A second point that will impress itself is that in Spite of the arguments of Block and writers of his school. The mounting expense of modern war is not. After all, a very strong, r or primarv deterrent of conflict. The third point which will arrest attention is the financial strength and resourcefulness of the British Empire. Her far-flung battle line is paralleled bv her far-thing commercial and financial line of influence and power. As her children have gathered from all quarters of the world to her defense in battle, so her financial resources have come from equallv diverse and distant quarters to support them. Without her foreign investments to draw on Britain would undoubtedly have been seriously crippled before this. Still again, one will be struck with the fact that this burden of taxa' tion has been borne cheerfullv, in accordance with the determina tion of the people and their government to pursue their purpose in the war to a conclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.