| "With them the Tsar's
warning that "the accelerated arms race"-----to produce ever larger
armies,
heavier artillery and bigger warships----was "transforming the
armed
peace into a crushing burden that weighs on all nations and, if
prolonged, will lead to the very cataclysm it seeks to avert..."
Selection from John Keegan's The First World
War (Page 17). |
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