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...warfare "unity of command" is essential. Lack of such "unity of command" has probably been the cause of more defeats and disasters in military history than any other one contributing cause. It nearly caused the defeat in, and undoubtedly prolonged, the two greatest wars in our history-the Civil War and the World War. After such experience it is unthinkable that any nation could deliberately prepare its forces for national defense, so as to insure divided responsibilities and divided command in every possible theatre of operations. Yet that is just what is proposed...
...assembly were many and frothed with "the three classic words." Lord Cecil uttered them for Britain, and added: "It is our business henceforward to be sternly practical. . . The League is the greatest international fact of our day." M. de Jouvenal uttered them for France, and added that nations must not go to sleep as the echoes of one war die away and expect to awake in safety as the next one rumbles in the offing, but must make mutual sacrifices to attain mutual gains...
...GREATEST BOOK IN THE WORLD, and other Papers-A. Edward Newton-Atlantic Monthly Press...
Stepping aboard his cruiser, The Repulse, the Prince received official farewells from President de Alvear. As lie steamed toward Buckingham-on-Thames, rumors again circulated. This time the story went that London awaits him as "The World's Greatest Commercial Traveler," expects him to tell British business men how to capture South American markets...
There is a galloping chapter on "Sporting Books." "Skinner Street News" touches on the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley group. Dickensians will relish "The Greatest Little Book in the World." But a particular interest is unnecessary for lively enjoyment of any of these papers; the wide knowledge they reflect is so unassuming, so humanized, so colored by the author's manifold personality...