"No Drawn Game!"
% "THE CAME IS WORTH WIN NSNG, AND, UNDER PROVIDENCE, WE MEAN TO WIN IT!" Lord Lansdowne (Foreign Secretary in the Balfour Administration), speaking at Nottingham, said Germany s aim. was to establish military despotism from the North Sea to the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, by means oi aggressive and unscrupulous diplomacy, and on a basis of complete disregard of treaty obligations whenever these were inconvenient to herself. . ? . . ,„. „ m ~.. f ,. V i "We were aware," he said, "that when Germany declared war she meant to wag. it ruthlessly and pitilessly. Although Germany suggested the declaration of a drawn game, there is no question as far as we are concerned ot declaring the innings closed. The ; game is worth winning, and under Providence we mean to win it!"
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 31, 23 September 1914, Page 5
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129"No Drawn Game!" Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 31, 23 September 1914, Page 5
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