ARMAGEDDON II
race-wars might very well be started by the
native troops of European Powers at the end
of a world-war.
Can the British Empire hope to survive an
era of race-wars? Seeing that the Empire contains
hundreds of millions of Asiatics and Africans,
this hardly seems possible. But the forecasting
of history can never become an exact science,
because the emergence of great men is always a
possible source of contingency. We may perhaps
comfort ourselves with the recollection that, only
a few years after the disgraceful defeat of the
British Fleet by the Dutch, an Anglo-Dutch
army, led by the greatest military genius the
country has produced, Marlborough, shattered
Louis XTV's dream of world-hegemony, and
raised Britain to the dominant position in world
affairs which she has ever since retained. So Eng-
land may after all be saved, as by a miracle, by
another Churchill! But would it not be wiser
so to conduct our affairs that miracles would
not be needed?