APPENDIX
ON RECENT EVENTS IN EUROPE
At the outbreak of the Balkan War "The Great Illusion" was subjected to much criticism, on the ground that the war tended to disprove its theses. The following quotations, one from Mr. Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the other from the English Review of Reviews, are typical of many others.
Mr. Churchill said, in a speech at Sheffield: