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If by a magician's wand any one of these three distant expeditions could be put in at the right moment against the Prussians or the Bavarians , the course of the war might be altered . Then , again , one cannot resist asking whether the ...
If by a magician's wand any one of these three distant expeditions could be put in at the right moment against the Prussians or the Bavarians , the course of the war might be altered . Then , again , one cannot resist asking whether the ...
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... communiqués by which Hindenburg and Ludendorff , Ludendorff and Hindenburg , seek to conceal the course of events from a nervous and apprehensive public , who are probably more susceptible to panic than any community in the world .
... communiqués by which Hindenburg and Ludendorff , Ludendorff and Hindenburg , seek to conceal the course of events from a nervous and apprehensive public , who are probably more susceptible to panic than any community in the world .
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If such manoeuvres were confined to officials and politicians in Berlin , who are always mounting one or other pantomine for the benefit of neutrals , whose swallow is deemed unlimited , we should take them as a matter of course .
If such manoeuvres were confined to officials and politicians in Berlin , who are always mounting one or other pantomine for the benefit of neutrals , whose swallow is deemed unlimited , we should take them as a matter of course .
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There is of course in all armies a tendency to “ kill off ” more of the enemy than actually die . In making such admissions , and others that might be made , we are not inspired by that besotted admiration of everything in the German ...
There is of course in all armies a tendency to “ kill off ” more of the enemy than actually die . In making such admissions , and others that might be made , we are not inspired by that besotted admiration of everything in the German ...
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It is devoutly to be hoped that they may succeed in warning the latter off the course ' for the duration . ” It is the condition a . 66 66 of victory . Look what the politicians have done. * We borrow the topography from the always ...
It is devoutly to be hoped that they may succeed in warning the latter off the course ' for the duration . ” It is the condition a . 66 66 of victory . Look what the politicians have done. * We borrow the topography from the always ...
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