ROMANTICISM AND REALISM
"So long aj our European militarists," writes Mr J A. Spender in the Yorkshire Ofcserver, ''eontinue to talk in mediaeval language about . the glories of war, and to educate their youth for the battlefield as if it were a romanfcic adventure, we must keep them reminded of the realities of the world in which both, they and we are living. "One of these realities — and it is on the whole the most comforting — -is that there is not at this moment a general staff in Europe which would assure its Government of victory in war, or even of a measure of success which would not be neutralised by more than the equivalent destruction. . • v 'The art of war was nevor in such a chaotic condition or its hazarda • more iu'calculable. I do not say that this is a final guarantee against reekless i'olly or madness, but it is, I believe, a steadying factor of much higher value than is gencrally recognised. No one who tries to inform himself about European "hffairs can fail to be aware thiat the ad'vice given, by military and naval experts to their Governments is of a very different ua ture from what the shouting and flourishing of the political protagonists might lead us to suppose."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 48, 19 November 1937, Page 4
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