Word: lib
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hard, soldierly, efficient* officer and humane, skeptical, almost pacifistic civilian. He believed in shooting sentries who fell asleep; ordered his men to fire many an extra round on Christmas Day, because he did "not believe in Christmas relaxation, in war"; used "atrocity" propaganda and blood-and-thunder speeches ad lib to increase his troops' morale. Yet he can take stock thus of the ultimate end of discipline, of all soldierly training: "The net result of the barren, glorious bloody battle of Thiepval is that over 700 men of the West Belfast battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles prove their ability...