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Excerpt from The Danger Zone: The Position of the United States Regarding Navy and Merchant Marine; An Historically Accurate Report of the Conference at Washington on Limitation of Armament
Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister of England (after conclu sion of Boer War) There have been great colonial and maritime powers, four or five, but they have always fallen. If we ever allow our defenses at sea to fall to such a point of inefficiency that it is as easy, or nearly as easy, to cross the sea as it is to cross a land frontier, our great Empire, stretching to the-ends of the earth, sup ported by maritime force in every part of it, will come cluttering to the ground whenever a blow at the metropolis of England is struck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
