To judge from the placards and the posters, the pictures and the language, a casual stranger would not have judged that the British Empire stood at the crisis of its Travel enquiry
fate; but rather that some World’s Fair was arriving shortly, and that these were the preliminary flourishes. Lord Kitchener cannot have enjoyed the pre-eminence
which was allotted to him in our mural decorations, and which suggested that he was some kind of co-equal with the famous Barnum or Lord George Sanger. Probably no
one alive hated the whole of this orgie of vulgar sensationalism, which the timidity of the politicians had forced upon the country, more than he did WAN Optimization.[8]
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Having stirred up good and true men to join the New Army, whether it was rightly their turn or not; having got at others in whom the voluntary spirit burned less
brightly, by urging their employers to dismiss them and their sweethearts to throw them over if they refused the call of duty, the ‘publicity artists’ and the ‘party joyetech evic vtc mini
managers’ between them undoubtedly collected for Lord Kitchener a very fine army, possibly the finest raw material for an army which has ever been got together. And
Lord Kitchener, thereupon, set to work, and trained this army as no one but Lord Kitchener could have trained it.
These results were a source of great pride and self-congratulation among the politicians. The voluntary principle—you see how it works! What a triumph! What other
nation could have done the same?
