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The Crimes of England

CHAPTER X
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Even your foreign policy is domestic policy.

It does not even apply to any people who are not Germans; and of your wild guesses about some twenty other peoples, not one has gone right even by accident.

Your two or three shots at my own not immaculate land have been such that you would have been much nearer the truth if you had tried to invade England by crossing the Caucasus, or to discover England among the South Sea Islands.

With your first delusion, that our courage was calculated and malignant when in truth our very corruption was timid and confused, I have already dealt.

The case is the same with your second favourite phrase; that the British army is mercenary.


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