Note 20 — Chapter II · GERMAN DIPLOMACY AND STATECRAFT

Germany and the Next War: “The appropriate and conscious employment of war as a political means has always led to happy results.” And again, “The relations between two States must often be termed a latent war which is provisionally being waged in peaceful rivalry. Such a position justifies the employment of hostile methods, just as war itself does, since in such a case both parties are determined to employ them.”