I am not a soldier, Hebblethwaite, but the fellows we've got up at the top--not the soldiers themselves but the chaps like old Busby and Simons--are simply out and out rotters.

That's plain speaking, isn't it, but you and I are the two men concerned in the government of this country who do talk common sense to one another.

We've fine soldiers and fine organisers, but they've been given the go-by simply because they know their job and would insist upon doing it thoroughly, if at all.

Russia will have another four million men ready to be called up by the end of 1915, and not only that, but what is more important, is that she'll have the arms and the uniforms for them.
Germany isn't going to wait for that.

I've thought it all out.