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This operation is now postponed , for how long we cannot say , but it is none the less certain , provided we can keep our politicians in order and can prevent them from courting disaster ...
This operation is now postponed , for how long we cannot say , but it is none the less certain , provided we can keep our politicians in order and can prevent them from courting disaster ...
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It was not merely that the politicians had so arranged that we drifted into this struggle for existence without an army in the modern sense of that term , but our Churchills were a called “ permitted to squander our exiguous forces in ...
It was not merely that the politicians had so arranged that we drifted into this struggle for existence without an army in the modern sense of that term , but our Churchills were a called “ permitted to squander our exiguous forces in ...
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The alternatives would appear to lie between some one altogether outside the ranks of professional politicians , such as Sir Eric Geddes , or a ... Or it may be that some soldier will have to sacrifice himself by turning politician .
The alternatives would appear to lie between some one altogether outside the ranks of professional politicians , such as Sir Eric Geddes , or a ... Or it may be that some soldier will have to sacrifice himself by turning politician .
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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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AMONG notable factors in our recent successes have been the admirable timing of the blows - showing , incidentally , that soldiers , even Generals , are not such idiots as politicians The Army and are pleased to assume — which have ...
AMONG notable factors in our recent successes have been the admirable timing of the blows - showing , incidentally , that soldiers , even Generals , are not such idiots as politicians The Army and are pleased to assume — which have ...
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