...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...n the kindred nations close at hand. And quite a large number of areas and cities in the world, it has to be remembered, are not homogeneous at all. W... ...m and Lorraine because of the stra- tegic and economic importance of those regions to Germany, and he was arguing that before we English got into such... ...tewardship. For an unchecked fragmentary control of tropical and cha- otic regions, it substitutes the possibility of a general author- ity. And this ... ...n a posi- tion to commence day and night continuous attacks upon the Rhine towns. Not hour-long raids such as London knows, but week-long raids. Then ... ...sketched out in this war. We shall get big land ironclads which will smash towns. We shall get air offensives—let the experi- enced London reader thin...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...