Mid-West Quarterly, The (1913-1918)
Date of this Version
1915
Abstract
In a recent speech Mr. Asquith declared that the greatest mistake that Germany had made in respect to the war was in her failure to recognize that there was a British Empire. Great Britain has long been regarded as a small, insignificant island off the European coast. She has been looked upon as a second-rate European power somewhat in the class with Italy and Spain. And such she is in fact if considered by herself alone. But the war has revealed, what the Empire has long since known, that England is an imperial rather than a European nation, that she is but the heart of a group of free autonomous states, that her strength lies not alone in her own people and resources, but in the loyal support of her children and children's children throughout the seven seas,
Comments
Published in THE MID-WEST QUARTERLY 2:3 (April 1915), pp. 230-249. Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons & the University of Nebraska.