The Sands of Fate Dramatised Study of An Imperial Conscience a Phantasy
The Sands of Fate Dramatised Study of An Imperial Conscience a Phantasy
Thomas Barclay
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We have proceeded from conquest to conquest since its beginning. Professor Conquests will be our undoing. They extend our lines and use up our men in the maintenance of occupation armies. If Italy joins the enemy, how- ever, we shall have an advantage. Austria-Hun- gary will be able to utilise against Italy Slav troops she no longer dares, after their wholesale surrenders, to use against Russia. Ballin That's true. I wonder if our diplomacy has thought of this. Professor Our diplomacy! Those we...ll-bred officials . . . Ballin Well, Billow. He's a diplomatist! 1 86 The Sands of Fate [ni. Professor Yes, Biilow, but that is because he knows Eu- rope as a private person. Diplomatists should have special go-as-you-like missions from time to time to enable them to visit countries and know their peo- ple, like private persons. A diplomatist is a man who goes about with a danger warning on his well- brushed top hat. He is like the husband in the play, the last man to see the decoration sprouting from his own temples.
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