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Ordeal by Battle

The author's acknowledgements

Word Count: 427    |    Released on: 17/11/2017

on of the present volume is mine alone; but I have used their ideas without hesitation, and have drawn largely upon the notes and memoranda which they drafted for my assistance. I wis

Germany[1] which have been characterised by {xxi} a remarkable degree of prescience and sanity. At a certain point, however, there is a difference between the views expressed in The Round Table and those

to eye with him. In all probability I never shall. At times his views have been in sharp opposition to my own. But for these very reasons-if he will not resent it as an impertinence-I should like to say here how greatly I respect him for three qualities, which have been none too common among public men in recent times-first, for the clearness with which he grasps and states his beliefs; secondly, for the courageous constancy

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“It is hardly necessary to plead, in extenuation of those many faults which any impartial reader will discover in the following pages, the impossibility of discussing events which are unfolding themselves around us, in the same detached spirit as if we were dealing with past history. The greater part of this volume has been written in haste, and no one is more alive to its shortcomings than the author himself.”