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It depends on relative man-power and
gun-power. Given a superiority of guns and men, and attack is cheap.
Defense is blown off the earth. Otherwise how could we ever hope to
win?"
"I agree. But the forces at Verdun are about equal, and the French
have the advantage of position. The Germans are committing suicide."
"Humbug! They know what they are doing. They are the greatest soldiers
in Europe."
"Led by men with bone heads."
"By great scientists."
"By the traditional rules of medievalism. By bald--headed vultures in
spectacles with brains like penny-in--the-slot machines. Put in a
penny and out comes a rule of war. Mad egoists! Colossal blunderers!
Efficient in all things but knowledge of life."
"Then God help our British G.H.Q.!"
A long silence. The silence of men who see monstrous forces at work,
in which human lives are tossed like straws in flame. A silence
reaching back to old ghosts of history, reaching out to supernatural
aid. Then from one speaker or another a kind of curse and a kind of
prayer.


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