You must remember that it was an unprovoked war, a war engineered by Germany for the sheer purposes of aggression.

That is why a punitive spirit entered into our subsequent negotiations." She nodded.
"I expect history will tell us some day," she continued, "that we needed a great statesman of the Beaconsfield type at the Peace table.

However, that is all ended.

They sowed the seed at Versailles, and I think we are going to reap the harvest." "After all," Nigel observed thoughtfully, "it is very difficult to see what practical interference there could be with the peace of the world.
I can very well believe that the spirit is there, but when it comes to hard facts--well, what can they do?
England can never be invaded.

The war of 1914 proved that.