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VISCOUNT HALDANE
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR FROM DECEMBER, 1905 TO JUNE, 1912;
LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR FROM JUNE, 1912 TO MAY, 1915.ToList
BEFORE THE WAR
BY
VISCOUNT HALDANE
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
New York and London
1920
Copyright, 1920, by Funk & Wagnalls Company
[Printed in the United States of America]
Published in February, 1920
Copyright under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics of the United States, August 11, 1910
PREFATORY NOTE
The chapters of which this little volume consists were constructed witha definite purpose. It was to render clear the line of thought andaction followed by the Government of this country before the war,between January, 1906, and August, 1914. The endeavor made was directedin the first place to averting war, and in the second place to preparingfor it as well as was practicable if it should come. In reviewing whathappened I have made use of the substance of various papers recentlycontributed to the Westminster Gazette, the Atlantic Monthly, Landand Water, and the Sunday Times. The gist of these, which werewritten with their inclusion in this book in view, has been incorporatedin the text together with other material. I have to thank the Editors ofthese journals for their courtesy in agreeing that the substance of whatthey published should be made use of here as part of a connectedwhole.