... military talent in whatever quarter. lai lie was • newly' promoted Mtjor General; he was one of the first leaders of the invasion of Belgium. and is understood to have acquitted himself successfully in the operations against Liege. Bin he was almost ...

... England would have mobilised troops and Germany would have handed over an ultimatum, and then there would have been the invasion and ail it meant. The whole world would have called England a nation of cowards, and • when worse German atrocities were ...