Her expansion has not entirely ceased; but industrially she is being left behind by Germany and by the United States, and her recent colonial acquisitions have been attained only at an excessive cost.

Inasmuch as she has succeeded in retaining her relative superiority on the sea, she has maintained her special position in the European political system; but the relatively greater responsibilities of the future coupled with her relatively smaller resources make her future international standing dubious.

It looks as if there might be something lacking in the national organization and policy with which Great Britain has been so completely content.
Many Englishmen recognize that their national organization has diminished in efficiency, and they are considering various methods of meeting the emergency.

But to an outsider it does not look as if any remedy, as yet seriously proposed, was really adequate.

The truth is, that the existing political, social, and economic organization of Great Britain both impairs and misleads the energy of the people.