Thus the instinct of self-preservation leads inevitably to war, and the conquest of foreign soil.

It is not the possessor, but the victor, who then has the right.
The threatened people will see the point of Goethe's lines: "That which them didst inherit from thy sires, In order to possess it, must be won." The procedure of Italy in Tripoli furnishes an example of such conditions, while Germany in the Morocco question could not rouse herself to a similar resolution.[C] [Footnote C: This does not imply that Germany could and ought to have occupied part of Morocco.

On more than one ground I think that it was imperative to maintain the actual sovereignty of this State on the basis of the Algeciras Convention.

Among other advantages, which need not be discussed here, Germany would have had the country secured to her as a possible sphere of colonization.

That would have set up justifiable claims for the future.] In such cases might gives the right to occupy or to conquer.