We have a peculiar interest because the true defence of our country, owing to scientific development, is now no longer the Channel...but upon the Rhine. (Austen Chamberlain)

We have a peculiar interest because the true defence of our country, owing to scientific development, is now no longer the Channel...but upon the Rhine.

Austen Chamberlain

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