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    Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly'
    Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly'
    Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly'
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    Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly'

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      A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly'

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      GREAT BRITAIN'S

      SEA POLICY

      A REPLY TO AN AMERICAN CRITIC,

      REPRINTED FROM "THE ATLANTIC

      MONTHLY"

      BY

      PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY

      T. FISHER UNWIN, Ltd.,

      1, ADELPHI TERRACE, LONDON.

      1917.

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      VII.

      VIII.

      Great Britain's Sea Policy.

      I.

      An article in the Atlantic Monthly for October by Mr. Arthur Bullard has set me thinking. It was hard to classify. It was not exactly pro-German. Most of its general sentiments were unexceptionable. It did not seem to be written in bad faith. Yet it was full of sneers and accusations against Great Britain which almost any candid reader, who knew the facts, must see to be unfair. I did not know what to make of Mr. Bullard till at last there came across my mind an old description of a certain type, the second-best type, of legendary Scotch minister: In doctrine not vara ootstanding, but a Deevil on the moralities!

      Mr. Bullard's general doctrine is fair enough. There have been two types of foreign policy in Great Britain, one typified, if you like, by Lord North or Castlereagh or Disraeli, a type which concentrated on its country's interests and accepted the ordinary diplomatic traditions of old-world Europe; the other typified by Fox, Gladstone, Campbell-Bannerman, Bryce, which set before itself an ideal of righteousness and even of unselfishness in international politics. Both parties made their mistakes; but on the whole the Liberal movement in British foreign policy is generally felt to point in the right direction, and its record forms certainly a glorious page in the general history of civilization. Mr. Bullard, speaking as an enlightened American, is prepared to befriend, or at least to praise, Great Britain if she walks in Liberal paths, but intends to denounce her if she follows after Lord North. For example: he denounces the policy of the Boer War, but he praises warmly the settlement which followed it in 1906 under the guidance of Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, and Sir Edward Grey. The granting of self-government to the defeated Boers will always rank as one of the finest achievements in political history. This is all sound Liberalism, and I accept every word of it.

      There is nothing peculiar, then, about Mr. Bullard's doctrine; it is only when he applies it that one discovers his true deevilishness on the moralities. His method is to ask at once more than human nature can be expected to give, and then pour out a whole commination service of anathemas when his demands are not complied with. He begins, as it were, by saying that all he expects of Mr. X—— in order to love him is common honesty and truthfulness: we all

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