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...Great Britain and for the entry of Belgium into a western European grouping within a system of collective security. . . . The reorganization of eastern Europe is in hand and a comparable movement in the west would complete the process. ... In the forefront of immediate purposes stands the question of an Anglo-French alliance. . . . [But] Europe can prosper only as a whole and nothing could be more disquieting and reactionary than partnerships or associations smacking of rival blocs. The momentous alliance between Great Britain and Russia was designed ... to associate east and west in a partnership of peace; and that still stands...
...northeastern France, Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. These same "Germans" make up the Saxon element of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and it seems to me that the English must be not a little proud of their drop of Saxon blood since they constantly refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxons...
...London were such fundamental questions as juridical responsibility of heads-of-state and their higher subordinates, and whether the act of aggressive war should be considered a crime in itself. But narrower legal points had accounted for most of the recent discussion. Example: should the indictments be short (Anglo-American practice), or an almost complete statement of the prosecution's case (Continental practice)? A French expert described the resulting compromise: "A Continental lawyer looking at the document will object because it is based on Saxon law; a Saxon lawyer will claim it's based on Continental law-this...
Friction between the Anglo-Americans and the Russians in the early days of joint occupation was caused by: 1) suspicion growing out of different languages, customs and behavior, and 2) the Russians' desire to make a good showing of their ten weeks of occupation. The Russians are proud of their Army's victories, not so proud of its appearance and peacetime behavior. They wanted to get the rougher elements out and the disciplined troops in before the British and Americans came. And they wanted the British and Americans to see how well they were cleaning up and running...
...handful of men against thousands of British regulars for six months, then made a desperate trip to Europe in search of aid. He died in Switzerland in 1904, and it was left to mere youths such as Smuts, Botha and Hertzog to build and shape today's Anglo-Boer Dominion of South Africa...