hand, she had gained, not
only the incalculable advantage of the alliance, but a magnificent and
unsurpassed landlocked basin on the coast of Wales.

The United States had been obliged to pay an immense sum on account of
the contract with the War Syndicate, but this was considered money so
well spent, and so much less than an ordinary war would have cost, that
only the most violent anti-Administration journals ever alluded to it.

Reduction of military and naval forces, and gradual disarmament, was
now the policy of the allied nations. Such forces and such vessels as
might be demanded for the future operations of the War Syndicate were
retained. A few field batteries of motor-guns were all that would be
needed on land, and a comparatively small number of armoured ships
would suffice to carry the motor-guns that would be required at sea.

Now there would be no more mere exhibitions of the powers of the
instantaneous motor-bomb. Hereafter, if battles must be fought, they
would be battles of annihilation.

This is the history of the Great Syndicate War. Whether or not the
Anglo-American Syndicate was ever called upon to make war, it is not to
be stated here. But certain it is that after the formation of this
Syndicate all the nations of the world began to teach English in their
schools, and the Spirit of Civilization raised her head with a
confident smile.

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