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...that limit." To pacifists the only crumb of comfort was thrown by Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Britain's best-known and most articulate military strategist. Capt. Liddell Hart is the author of The Real War, the successor of the late great Lieut. Colonel Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph and the inventor of the Battle Drill System and the Expanding Torrent Method of Attack. He too agreed that another war is not unlikely, but insisted, contrary to general opinion, that it will be a very tame slaughter compared to the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Worries | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

While yet "The Mirrors of Downing Street" and "the Glass of Fashion" are being widely discussed as something more worth while than the effervescence of "the Grandmother of the Flapper" or the diaric bombast of Colonel Repington there comes another books from the pen of A Gentleman With a Duster. It may not command such a broad audience solely with religious personality and "the rather ignoble situation of the Church in the affections of men", but an eclectic public will appreciate the earnestness of the man even if it doesn't agree with his views...

Author: By W. P., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF PLAYGOER | 3/31/1922 | See Source »

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