He saw as much as a winter day of snow and fog would allow him to see.
France must be patient.

Everything takes time." "Yes!--so long as we can be sure that the true position is not only understood, but felt.

But our old, rich, and beautiful country, with all the accumulations on its soil of the labour, the art, the thought of uncounted generations, has been in this war the buffer between German savagery and the rest of Europe.

Just as our armies bore the first brunt and held the pass, till civilisation could rally to its own defence, so our old towns and villages have died, that our neighbours might live secure.

We have suffered most in war--we claim the first thought in peace.