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Show MEN AND THE MAN Something over a hundred years ago i the military genius was with France. e'(i !ss than half a century ago Germany . had le great leader. However, much more men count ('! than the man, yet the man does count. 'erc;: The sPirtt of the French people of the 1 late eighteenth and early nineteenth s" .,- centuries was finer than the spirit of .)' the German peoples of that time. The !.jv spirit of the German peoples of 1S70 ,o wan finer than the spirit of the French people of 1S70. Yet Napoleon and Von Moltke were supreme actors in the two periods. Of the fateful Battle of the Boyne the Irish have always said that if their leader had been William and their enemies' en-emies' leader James, a different story would have been written. Will this European war develop a great military genius? Or will all del-end on the higher average of the men and the war machines-on where is the greater discipline, the finer spir-it spir-it the greater staying power? |