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Updated: May 15, 2025

Is it any wonder that the country our untouched, uninvaded country safe as it believed itself to be under the protection of its invincible Navy, was, in some sections of our population at any rate, slow to realise the enormous task to which for the faith of treaties' sake, for self-defence's sake it was committed? And yet was it after all so slow?

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The War on All Fronts: England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend