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Show Germany Miscalculated Germany made no greater mistake mis-take in its history than she did in 1914 at the outbreak of the war in reference to Britain fighting. Firsl Germany believed that a large part of the British army would have to be in Ireland to keep order there. Berlin was also counting on the spread of serious labor trouble keeping keep-ing England busy in its own land. Even the militant suffragist agitation agita-tion was counted on to keep Britain out of the war, this last giving the Germans to believe that England was hopelessly decadent for, according accord-ing to Prussian ideas of women, any country that allowed women so much rights, even the right to agitate, agi-tate, was a decadent country. |