Little Britain

There will be no such country (as Great Britain at the end of the war) in existence. In its place we shall have Little Britain, a narrow strip of island territory peopled by loutish football-kickers, living on the crumbs that Germany will deign to throw to them. Whatever this war may bring in it's train, certain it is that the laughable and childish military system of Britain will shortly fall to pieces. Then the once mighty Empire, with her naval strength represented by a few old tubs which Germany will have left her, will become the laughing stock of the nations, the scare-crow at which children will point their fingers in disdainful glee. - Koelnische Zeitung, September 1914.