[The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Prince Shan CHAPTER XXX 2/13
Lord Dorminster would have me believe that there is a still more terrible price for us to pay in the future, unless we change our whole outlook, abandon our belief in the League of Nations, and once more acknowledge the supremacy of force." "Lord Dorminster is right," Prince Shan pronounced.
"I have come here to tell you so, Mr.Mervin Brown." "You come here as a friend of England ?" the latter asked. "I come here as one who hesitates to become her enemy," was the measured reply.
"I will be perfectly frank with you, sir.
I came to this country to discuss a project which, with the acquiescence of China and Japan, would have resulted in the humiliation of your country and the gratification of Germany's eagerly desired revenge." "You believe in the existence of that sentiment, then ?" the Prime Minister enquired. "Any one short of a very insular Englishman," the Prince replied, "would have realised it long ago.
There is a great society in Germany, scarcely even a secret society, pledged to wipe out the humiliations of the last great war.
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