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in the best position to do so — could at the outset entirely visualize the 

 complete revolution in the methods of conducting warfare which impended. 

 Hence the handling of scientific manpower had to pass through a transition 

 as all concerned gradually reached new conceptions. In spite of the inevitable 

 confusion in such a process, the system did work because the individuals 

 involved, whatever their convictions and disagreements, were all actuated 

 by the overriding desire to get on with the war. 



