WHO ARE THE HUNS?

66 Violation of the Neutral Suez Canal.
trouble itself further about the declaration of the neutrality
of the Suez Canal.
We trust that these deeds will yet cause the British Empire
to suffer in a grievous degree precisely in those spots where
it is most easy to wound. At all events this wanton action in
respect to the Suez Canal Acts is a telling example of the worth
England places upon international compacts. This is something
which Germany must under no circumstances forget at
the conclusion of peace. Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey
(for which last country the terms of the Agreement of 1888
have no validity) must not forget, in the event of Turkey being
forced to defend her possessions on the Red Sea, that the
judgment of the great Bonaparte at the beginning of the 19th
century regarding the importance of Egypt, still applies to the
British Empire of today. England is well aware that the most
precarious point in its imperium lies in Egypt.
This fact will and must determine the attitude of all states
which are resolved to make an end of the world-power of Britain,
so that a permanent peace may be secured and Europe be
saved from the intrigues of this most dangerous of the disturbers
of peace.
Let Egypt be made free of the enforced rule of Britain
and the key to India is in our hands ! One of the many achievements
of this war must be the unconditional assurance that the
Suez Canal is to remain neutral. Since all international law is
to England a mere inconvenient hand-cuff which it must needs
shake off, real international rights can be enforced against England
only after England has been defeated! x
1 My honored friend, von Liszt, touching upon this point, the justice
of which he affirms, has induced me to express my opinion of the "Central
European Union of States." This I shall do in another place. I will merely
say that I am an enthusiastic supporter of such a union—from the North
Cape unto Tripoli, from Flushing to Asia Minor—but I am pessimistic as
to whether we possess the grand statesman, who after the ordeal of the conclusion
of a mighty peace treaty, would have sufficient strength to create so
gigantic a work. He who is able to form a union such as this will be accounted
for all time one of the greatest figures in European history. But in order to
form unions at least two parties are invariably necessary !