Excerpt from The War Lords Working through the principals whom events have brought into the fierce light that plays upon the European stage. Unlike previous books by the same author, the object is not, primarily, the elucidation of character, but the relation of character to specific events, and the scope of the treatment therefore is enlarged to include those events. Many of the articles have appeared in The Daily News, The Atlantic Monthly, and Pearson's Magazine, and reflect in some measure the spirit and circumstances of the moment at which they were written. In certain respects the circumstances have changed. For example, M. Veni zelos has been restored by the people of Greece to power. It has, however, been thought well to repro duce the articles substantially in their original form. 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.