Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Ethiopia and Spain, after Munich and the rape of Czecho-Slovakia, after the final diplomatic defeat of letting Russia sign with Germany instead of the Allies-British diplomacy came to World War II with a minus score. But since war began British diplomacy has a wholly different record...
...everything else, men must apprentice themselves to their trade. Minus a working knowledge of the golden rules the highest gallantry is too often unavailing." So reads the preface of a soldier's handbook, Battle Training in Word and Picture (George Newnes Ltd.; 6d.), recently published in London with a War Office blessing and foreword by Viscount Gort, Chief of the British Field Forces...