G. 160;Wells, 'The Sword of Peace', Daily Chronicle,...suite So, too, did David Lloyd George, who succeeded Asquith as Prime Minister in160;1916,[ 57][ 57] Peter Rowland, Lloyd George, London, Barrie160;&160;Jenkins,... sac longchamp au sultan pas cher suite Lord Haldane, the minister chiefly responsible for preparing the British Expeditionary Force before the war,[ 58][ 58] Viscount Haldane, Before the War, London, Cassel and Company,...suite and Winston Churchill, first Lord of the Admiralty. In Churchill's words, Britain was fighting 'Prussian militarism', which bore no relation to 'the quiet, sober, commercial elements in Germany, nor of the common people of Germany, with all their virtues'.[ 59][ 59] 'Mr. 160;Churchill on the British Case', Times, 31160;Aug. Vanessa bruno cuir soldes 160;1914,...suite 40 Britain's diplomats also subscribed to the 'two-Germany' thesis. Sir160;Cecil Spring Rice, the ambassador in Washington, distinguished between the 'gentle, kind, sympathetic' Germans and the Prussian brutes who had 'put the soul of the German people in chains.'[ 60][ 60] Stephen Gwynn (ed. ), The Letters and Friendships of Sir. Sac imitation longchamp soldes ..suite Sir160;Nevile Henderson, claiming to speak for the British diplomatic service as a whole, echoed this view. 'It was the Prussians rather than the Germans whom we regarded as our real enemies and …not the Germans as a race.' He and his colleagues had nothing but respect for 41 the great qualities of order and efficiency, probity and kindness of the purer German of Northwest, West, and South Germany, with whom an Englishman on his travels abroad finds himself in such natural sympathy. 42 The trouble arose from the Prussians, whose character was corrupted by a 'considerable admixture of Slav blood', and who dominated the country through the Kaiser and military High Command. 'The Prussians, of whom even Goethe spoke as barbarians, are a distinctive European type, which has imposed itself and its characteristics upon the rest of Germany.suite The Oxford historians who argued the case for war later that month presented it as a struggle between Prussianism and Anglo-Saxonism. In their words, 'the principle of raison d'état', which had led Germany into war 'is not really the doctrine of Germany, but rather the doctrine of Prussia'; and they added, 'England has drawn her sword. How could she have done otherwise, with those traditions of law so deep in all Anglo-Saxon blood'.[ 53][ 53] Ernest Barker, H. 160;W. 160;C. Blouson moncler homme Davis et al. , Why We Are...suite Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, speaking to his Berwick constituents in September that year affirmed: 'It is against German militarism we must fight….for it is not the German people, but Prussian militarism that had driven Germany and Europe into this war.'[ 54][ 54] 'Sir160;E. sac longchamp bandouliere noir et marron soldes 160;Grey on German Militarism', Times,...suite In October, he repeated this claim in a private letter to a friend. The problem, he affirmed, was the Prussians who were brutes and aggressors and racially different from ordinary Germans. 'It is the Prussian Junkers alone who have created all this conflict, and the rest of the Germans are people more akin to ourselves than any other race.'[ 55][ 55] George160;M. sac vanessa bruno taille l 160;Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon, London,...suite H.160;G.160;Wells, the popular novelist, similarly distinguished between the German people -160;'the greatest people in Europe'160;- and the Prussians who had led them into war.[ 56][ 56] H160;.
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suite Lord Haldane, the minister chiefly responsible for preparing the British Expeditionary Force before the war,[ 58][ 58] Viscount Haldane, Before the War, London, Cassel and Company,...suite and Winston Churchill, first Lord of the Admiralty. In Churchill's words, Britain was fighting 'Prussian militarism', which bore no relation to 'the quiet, sober, commercial elements in Germany, nor of the common people of Germany, with all their virtues'.[ 59][ 59] 'Mr. 160;Churchill on the British Case', Times, 31160;Aug. Vanessa bruno cuir soldes 160;1914,...suite 40 Britain's diplomats also subscribed to the 'two-Germany' thesis. Sir160;Cecil Spring Rice, the ambassador in Washington, distinguished between the 'gentle, kind, sympathetic' Germans and the Prussian brutes who had 'put the soul of the German people in chains.'[ 60][ 60] Stephen Gwynn (ed. ), The Letters and Friendships of Sir. Sac imitation longchamp soldes
..suite Sir160;Nevile Henderson, claiming to speak for the British diplomatic service as a whole, echoed this view. 'It was the Prussians rather than the Germans whom we regarded as our real enemies and …not the Germans as a race.' He and his colleagues had nothing but respect for 41 the great qualities of order and efficiency, probity and kindness of the purer German of Northwest, West, and South Germany, with whom an Englishman on his travels abroad finds himself in such natural sympathy. 42 The trouble arose from the Prussians, whose character was corrupted by a 'considerable admixture of Slav blood', and who dominated the country through the Kaiser and military High Command. 'The Prussians, of whom even Goethe spoke as barbarians, are a distinctive European type, which has imposed itself and its characteristics upon the rest of Germany.suite The Oxford historians who argued the case for war later that month presented it as a struggle between Prussianism and Anglo-Saxonism. In their words, 'the principle of raison d'état', which had led Germany into war 'is not really the doctrine of Germany, but rather the doctrine of Prussia'; and they added, 'England has drawn her sword. How could she have done otherwise, with those traditions of law so deep in all Anglo-Saxon blood'.[ 53][ 53] Ernest Barker, H. 160;W. 160;C. Blouson moncler homme
Davis et al. , Why We Are...suite Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, speaking to his Berwick constituents in September that year affirmed: 'It is against German militarism we must fight….for it is not the German people, but Prussian militarism that had driven Germany and Europe into this war.'[ 54][ 54] 'Sir160;E. sac longchamp bandouliere noir et marron soldes 160;Grey on German Militarism', Times,...suite In October, he repeated this claim in a private letter to a friend. The problem, he affirmed, was the Prussians who were brutes and aggressors and racially different from ordinary Germans. 'It is the Prussian Junkers alone who have created all this conflict, and the rest of the Germans are people more akin to ourselves than any other race.'[ 55][ 55] George160;M. sac vanessa bruno taille l
160;Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon, London,...suite H.160;G.160;Wells, the popular novelist, similarly distinguished between the German people -160;'the greatest people in Europe'160;- and the Prussians who had led them into war.[ 56][ 56] H160;.