Word: portions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...diverting our attention from Flanders, where he is certain to renew his efforts." In other words, the public is made to believe that it was only a successful local attack which entirely failed in its broader strategic aim of forcing the Germans to transfer men and guns from another portion of the front. The stand taken by the press at the time of the Marne to the effect that a real defeat had been suffered and that it should be retrieved by yet harder fighting, no longer seems to be a safe policy. It is the necessity of making...
...British and French writers as an excuse for British, French and American neglect, but it excuses the Allies only in a slight degree. It is true that General Cadorna had been regarded as having established his military competence. Nobody supposed that he would leave the strategically most important portion of his line inadequately defended. But the question of responsibility does not end there. This war is not Italy's war alone. It is the war of all the Allies, and a defeat of one of them is the defeat of all. If the fighting of the war is not coordinated...
...beleaguered garrison, when by degrees the force is weakened, a greater weight of duty and responsibility rests upon those that are left. So, in the University, when our numbers are lessened, there is all the greater need that those remaining should have a double portion of the spirit of their calling...
...rear. For this reason, the line of communications is not so apt to be neglected as in former campaigns. The Teutons have followed their advances by an adequate and efficient system of railways. Furthermore, the large number of forces involved renders impossible a separate incursion involving only a small portion of the troops. Security demands that no section of the line move so far ahead as to form a long narrow salient. What progress is made into Russia must be very slow, since an enormous front is concerned. To consider a German drive without proper precaution for defense...
...total of 1028 men are at present enrolled in the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Only for a very short period last spring has the regiment been as large as this--a fact especially noteworthy when the number is compared with the enrolment figures of the College. That portion of the undergraduate body living in Cambridge, which naturally forms the bulk of the Corps, consists of slightly over 1200 students...