This is an article from the late Victorian era that emphasized a popular European notion during W.W. I that the war was inevitable:
“Bismark has long since recognized what at length the people of England are beginning to understand, that England and Germany must come to blows over the right to levy from the whole world the tribute of commerce…”
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