Fighting with French

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In these days one would rather fight than write; and those of us whom inexorable Time has superannuated can but envy and admire.
Seven years ago the father of two boys at Rugby asked me to write a story on the German peril, and the necessity of closing our ranks against a possible invasion. After some hesitation I decided to decline the suggestion, anxious not to insinuate in young minds a suspicion of Germany which might prove to be ill-founded. Two years later, when the subject was...