The National Review, Volume 71W.H. Allen, 1918 - English literature |
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Page 2
... preparation . Hand - to - mouth politicians , whose motto is " Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof , " as one of them once confessed in the House of Commons , can never be persuaded to look ahead and organize for a campaign which ...
... preparation . Hand - to - mouth politicians , whose motto is " Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof , " as one of them once confessed in the House of Commons , can never be persuaded to look ahead and organize for a campaign which ...
Page 9
... preparation for future wars and rumours of wars . We may put the point thus : civilization could endure , or at any rate exist , without some of Mr. Arnold Bennett's War Aims-- as to which we confess to being hazy - but it would vanish ...
... preparation for future wars and rumours of wars . We may put the point thus : civilization could endure , or at any rate exist , without some of Mr. Arnold Bennett's War Aims-- as to which we confess to being hazy - but it would vanish ...
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... preparing to grasp no less than one- quarter of the total area of European Russia , embracing about one - third of its population , including these historic regions , which are in one shape or another to be at Germany's disposal ...
... preparing to grasp no less than one- quarter of the total area of European Russia , embracing about one - third of its population , including these historic regions , which are in one shape or another to be at Germany's disposal ...
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... prepared to fall in with the arrangement in the case of a Turenne or of a Eugene or of a Napoleon as master , but they are exacting in this matter , and rather hard to please . Forces furnished by quite minor States that happen to be ...
... prepared to fall in with the arrangement in the case of a Turenne or of a Eugene or of a Napoleon as master , but they are exacting in this matter , and rather hard to please . Forces furnished by quite minor States that happen to be ...
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... prepared the mind of Parlia- ment for war mainly on the ground of vindicating the neutrality of Belgium . But the mind of the nation must have perceived that there was a great deal more in it than this . If not our own exist- ence ...
... prepared the mind of Parlia- ment for war mainly on the ground of vindicating the neutrality of Belgium . But the mind of the nation must have perceived that there was a great deal more in it than this . If not our own exist- ence ...
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