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The Central Empires enjoy the incalculable advantage of interior lines , which substantially diminishes the strain upon their armies . Tired and broken divisions battered by Sir Douglas Haig or General Pétain are taken for a “ rest cure ...
The Central Empires enjoy the incalculable advantage of interior lines , which substantially diminishes the strain upon their armies . Tired and broken divisions battered by Sir Douglas Haig or General Pétain are taken for a “ rest cure ...
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Surely the forty - five millions of people inhabiting these islands and the four hundred millions in the British Empire are entitled to something better at this crisis of their fate , when civilization itself is at stake ?
Surely the forty - five millions of people inhabiting these islands and the four hundred millions in the British Empire are entitled to something better at this crisis of their fate , when civilization itself is at stake ?
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... are trained to despise , we realize how different things are to what they were when Bismarck , von Roon , and von Moltke were placing the German Empire and the General Staff on the pinnacle from which they are now being deposed .
... are trained to despise , we realize how different things are to what they were when Bismarck , von Roon , and von Moltke were placing the German Empire and the General Staff on the pinnacle from which they are now being deposed .
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He is a quarter English , and though the bombast is purely Prussian , it almost looks as though his English blood enabled him to read his doom as he confronts the Empire of Queen Victoria which he has armed .
He is a quarter English , and though the bombast is purely Prussian , it almost looks as though his English blood enabled him to read his doom as he confronts the Empire of Queen Victoria which he has armed .
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( 11 ) Ireland must remain part of the British Empire , but surely the time has come to give her Home Rule within the Empire , on a basis of resolute justice . ( 12 ) England and Japan must keep the colonies they have conquered .
( 11 ) Ireland must remain part of the British Empire , but surely the time has come to give her Home Rule within the Empire , on a basis of resolute justice . ( 12 ) England and Japan must keep the colonies they have conquered .
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