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    Great Britain’s Part —: Observations Of An American Visitor To The British Army In France At The Beginning Of The Third Year Of The War
    Great Britain’s Part —: Observations Of An American Visitor To The British Army In France At The Beginning Of The Third Year Of The War
    Great Britain’s Part —: Observations Of An American Visitor To The British Army In France At The Beginning Of The Third Year Of The War
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    Great Britain’s Part —: Observations Of An American Visitor To The British Army In France At The Beginning Of The Third Year Of The War

    By Paul D. Cravath

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    Paul Cravath was a prominent New York lawyer and partner of the law firm known as Cravath, Swaine and Moore: a leader of the Anglophile “Atlantacist” movement that preached closer ties with Britain in opposition to the isolationist policies of several American administrations. As part of his cause, he visited Britain during the First World War and wrote of his experiences and opinions on the war effort.

    An interesting political book, passionately argued.

    Author — Cravath, Paul D. 1861-1940.

    Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company, 1917.

    Original Page Count – vi and 127 pages
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerdun Press
    Release dateApr 12, 2012
    ISBN9781782890744
    Great Britain’s Part —: Observations Of An American Visitor To The British Army In France At The Beginning Of The Third Year Of The War

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      Great Britain’s Part — - Paul D. Cravath

       This edition is published by PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING—www.picklepartnerspublishing.com

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      Text originally published in 1917 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2013, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      GREAT BRITAIN’S PART

      OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMERICAN VISITOR TO THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR

      BY

      PAUL D. CRAVATH

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      PREFACE 5

      I 6

      II 6

      III 7

      IV 8

      V 9

      VI 11

      VII 14

      VIII 15

      IX 16

      X 17

      XI 19

      XII 20

      XIII 21

      PREFACE

      THE following observations were prepared for the New York Times, in which they first appeared. I have acquiesced in the suggestion that they be published, in the hope that they may aid a few Americans to a better appreciation of the greatness of England’s achievements in the European War. I instinctively hesitate to write about France, because her appeal to the sympathy and admiration of the civilized world is so direct and dramatic that no words of mine seem adequate for the telling of her story. I cannot help feeling that with England the case is different. The British people and press have so liberally exercised the Englishman’s inalienable right to abuse the government that we in America often hear more of England’s mistakes than of her achievements. As a result, there is, I find, real misapprehension among Americans as to England’s part in the war. It is the hope of doing something towards removing this misapprehension that furnishes the excuse for the publication of these pages.

      P. D. C.

      February, 1917.

      GREAT BRITAIN’S PART

      I

      AN invitation to visit the British war zone in France came quite unexpectedly after I had spent the greater part of July studying war conditions in England. I had seen a good deal of the British army at home. I had visited recruiting stations, training camps, munition factories, hospitals, and camps for German prisoners. I had heard the conduct of the war discussed from every conceivable angle—in the House of Commons, at public meetings, at the Clubs, around the dinner table, and at the street corner. Indeed, in London, one hears very little else. I had heard as much of criticism as of praise, doubtless because the critic usually has a taste for conversation and leisure to gratify it.

      The more I saw of the army that was training in England, the keener became my ambition to see the army that was fighting in France. I had little hope of gratifying this ambition, because I had been told that, since the inauguration of the great Push, visits to the front by civilians were rarely permitted. Finally some good friends in the war

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