EMPIRE'S DEFENCES
PROPHETIC ADVICE QUEEN VICTORIA'S WARMING [FROM OUJt OWN COIIRKSrONDF-NT] LONDON, Dec. 5 Extracts from letters yf Queen Victoria shortly to lie published in bookform by Dr. Kurt Jagow, chief archivist of the Prussian Royal House, are printed in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, writes the Jierlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. They are chosen iroiu those preserved in the Brandenburg-Prussian archives in Berlin. One of the most interesting of these is dated 187!), just after Britain had nearly become involved with Russia. It was addressed to the Karl of Beaconsfield, then Prime Minister, and deals with questions of defence. "We have again been taught a great lesson," Queen Victoria states, "but it is never valued; one must never allow the Army and Navy to he reduced so far that one is suddenly forced to great expenditure in a hurry! "If we wish to keep our position as a great Power . . . we must always, with our Indian T''m pi re and our great colonies, be somehow prepared for attacks and wars. True economy consists in always being veady." What must 3lr. Baldwin think, asks the paper, when he reads tlie.se prophetic sentences?
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 15
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192EMPIRE'S DEFENCES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 15
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