So everything pushed him into writing confidentially to the Secretary of State for War a communication that he knew must be singularly distasteful to a number of the gentlemen who would peruse it. He chuckled indeed as he wrote, the open door behind him and the sunlight pouring in on his radiant figure. He said:
‘Sit down, Tietjens. Levin, I shall not want you for ten minutes,’ without raising his head, and went on writing. It annoyed him that, from the corner of his eye, AS Roma he could see that Tietjens was still standing, and he said rather irritably: ‘Sit down, sit down . . . ’
He wrote:
‘It is pretty generally held here by the native population that the present very serious derangement of traffic, if not actively promoted, is at least winked at by the Government of this country. It is, that is to say, intended to give us a taste of what would happen if I took any measures here for returning any large body of men to the home Arjen Robben Koszulka country or elsewhere, and it is said also to be a demonstration in favour of a New York City single command Slovakia — a measure which is here regarded by a great weight of instructed opinion as indispensable to the speedy and successful conclusion Ranska of hostilities . . . ’
The general paused over that sentence. It came very near the quick. For himself he was absolutely in favour of a single command, and in his opinion, too, it was indispensable to any sort of conclusion of hostilities at all. The whole of military history, in so far as it concerned allied operations of any sort — from the campaigns of Xerxes and operations during the wars of the Greeks and Romans, to the campaigns of Marlborough and Napoleon and the Prussian operations of 1866 and 1870 — pointed to the conclusion that a relatively small force acting homogeneously was, to the nth power again, more effective than vastly superior forces of allies acting only imperfectly in accord or not in accord at West Ham United all. Modern development in arms had made no shade Cristiano Ronaldo Koszulka at all of difference to strategy and had made differences merely of time and nu |
