'Mr. Angell's pamphlet was a work as unimposing in form as it was daring in expression. For a time nothing was heard of it in public, but many of us will remember the curious way in which ... "Norman Angellism" suddenly became one of the principal topics of discussion amongst politicians and journalists all over Europe. Naturally at first it was the apparently extravagant and paradoxical elements that were fastened upon most--that the whole theory of the commercial basis of war was wrong, that no modern war could make a profit for the victors, and that--most astonishing thing of all--a successful war might leave the conquerors who received the indemnity relatively worse off than the conquere…
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