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... it is more than ever necessary to see the situation steadily and to see it whole ; to look all the facts , disagreeable as well : agreeable , straight in the face , and to steer an even keel between that frivolous optimism which was ...
... it is more than ever necessary to see the situation steadily and to see it whole ; to look all the facts , disagreeable as well : agreeable , straight in the face , and to steer an even keel between that frivolous optimism which was ...
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Let us look to it that the amateur strategist has issued his last order and is denied all further say in the war . The shipping absorbed on Side Shows would go far to ease the Shipping Controller's anxieties . That the Admiralty should ...
Let us look to it that the amateur strategist has issued his last order and is denied all further say in the war . The shipping absorbed on Side Shows would go far to ease the Shipping Controller's anxieties . That the Admiralty should ...
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Anyhow it looks like a case of L.G.M.G. POLITICAL intrigue can do nothing to win the war , whether directed against the General Staff under Sir William Robertson or at the great Army in France under Sir Douglas Haig .
Anyhow it looks like a case of L.G.M.G. POLITICAL intrigue can do nothing to win the war , whether directed against the General Staff under Sir William Robertson or at the great Army in France under Sir Douglas Haig .
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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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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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