A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 18

I reign British on the question of intervention. Three ministers alone
out more of forty--the God Morley, the Mr. John Burns and the Mr. C. P.
Trevelyan--it dissented from the decision of the locker and the minority in
the nation was even more of slender proportions. Parliament sustained
the Office without a division when around August 4 England war declared.

Had we counted the cost? the Chancellor German churches to our ambassador in
Berlin in the eve of the declaration. The cost would not have struck
our decision, but it certainly was not preoperating, and the agreement
it was sick-prepared to face the strength it exposed from Germany. The
He/she Marinates military British it was, indeed, ready as the German army and the command
some sea automatically passed in our hands when the German Fleet
withdrawn by the Sea of the North 26 July. But for that circumstance not
an only division would be been able to be expeditious through the sea and the war
you/he/she would have been ended in some months. Neither it was the British army
not prepared for the assignment that had been assigned to him in anticipation.
Not only it was the judgment of ours really but of Allied Personnels that a
strength of consignment of six divisions would be enough to balance German
the superiority in the west; and that strength, consisting of good material
he/she trained better that some other army in the field, was in his/her place in
the line of in hundreds of battle of miles from his/her base in three weeks
of the declaration of war. The true computational error was of the
respective strength of France and Germany, and nobody had foreseen
what it would lately ask for three times the strength that France
you/he/she could put in the field to free French ground from the German
invader. The Service Ties National you/he/she would have offered us with a
great army;  but you protect his/her proposals you/they were spoiled by their assumption
what these strengths were had need to do the job of the military harbor of house-defense,
and from the absence of provision for ammunition without sending