Excerpt from The Case of Bohemia<br><br>The war broke out over an attempt on the part of the Central States to lay down the law to Europe on a question in which the interests of other nations were known to be involved. For the Germans and Magyars, what was behind it was a problem of power, not of territory. Very soon, however, power came to be conceived in terms of territory. German and Magyar do minion was to be secured by cessions of land such as would for the future incapacitate their opponents. On the other hand, the nations repre sented by the Entente now naturally bethought themselves of their unredeemed lands remaining under German or Magyar rule; claims of nation ality, which for fear of war had been left dormant for generations or even centuries, sprang to life oncewar had broken out. The original Ger manicprogramme in the war was expansion all round; that of the Allied States was the attain ment of national unity.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.