MISCALCULATIONS
“What, even in the event of victory, would Germany do with the French provinces, with Belgium, with Poland, with Scrvia, with a Bulgaria as undisciplined perhaps to the German as to the Russian yoke, with a revived and recalcitrant Turkey?” asks the Manchester Guardian. “The German rulers themselves do not know. What they do know is that they did not think out these problems before they appealed to the sword, and that they weigh heavy upon their minds whenever they venture to think upon them now. We get evidence of this vacillating purpose in the succession of disappointed hopes. They believed in Germany that Franco would make a separate peace, that Russia would, that Servia would, that in any event somewhere in the opposing ranks there would be a collapse. “Herr Harden now tells his countrymen that for his own part he never believed these things, and that they are manifestly impossible. In every one of the Allied States the spirit of endurance is high, the resolution to continue to the end unshaken, the resources huge and unexhausted.”
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Southland Times, Issue 17660, 18 February 1916, Page 6
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179MISCALCULATIONS Southland Times, Issue 17660, 18 February 1916, Page 6
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