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Excerpt from For the Right: Essays and Addresses
After the first outburst of enthusiasm there was special difficulty, in Great Britain, in maintaining keenness for the war. Our homelands were not in vaded, and after the first few weeks there was little chance that they ever would be. It was, therefore, actually harder for the mass of the British people than it was for Frenchmen or Russians to feel to the full the necessity for fighting. Moreover, the strict censorship which at the commencement of the war drew a veil over the doing of our ?eets and armies inevitably damped down all the first fresh enthusiasm. When men could neither see nor know what was going on their interest was bound to ?ag.
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