Excerpt from The War and Finance: How to Save the Situtation
War means destruction. This is self-evident, but how few realise it! In Great Britain not one in a hundred thousand. When an Englishman speaks of war he calls up some vision of a hand-to-hand fight; some romantic picture of a " Soldier's farewell." War to the British nation has never meant anything more than a disagreeable increase in the income tax, a little shouting, a little weeping. The idea has never conveyed any risk of personal loss or personal ruin. We have been engaged in a dozen wars during the past fifty years; some serious, but all so far away that they could be viewed with calmness. The casualty lists were very sad of course. But we put up a few nice marble memorials. The War Office of the period behaved as all British War Offices have ever done. It was cursed and then all went on as before. The politician interfered as all politicians will do. When he made too flagrant a blunder he was disgraced as Joseph Chamberlain was.
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