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over and the men come back to civil life. It is in order to 

 attract and train such men as soon as possible that I have 

 devoted so much space in the following pages to the need 

 for training colleges, and have spoken so emphatically on 

 the desirability of catching hold of every one who seems in 

 need of " a job " and insisting tliat he does " his bit " to 

 help win the peace as he has done to help win the War. 

 To enable him to do this we must start at once and 

 arrange for an Imperial development system of education 

 capable of coping with the demand for such courses, and, 

 whilst this is being done, elect a Minister of Imperial 

 Development and Food Supplies, with Cabinet rank, who 

 will see that the necessary financial and other assistance 

 is not lacking, once the men (and women) can be turned 

 out fully trained and ready for action. 



In conclusion I would like to say this. Before we can 

 start to pay for the War on the basis that I am about to 

 suggest, we have to win the War in a way that will ensure 

 a permanent peace, and that means that a " clean knock- 

 out " defeat must be inflicted on the Prussian militarism 

 and all the bestiality and brutality that that militarism 

 stands for. The belief that war pays has been con- 

 sistently taught to the people of Germany since the days 

 of Frederick the Great. They have been forced to accept 

 this doctrine with a far greater faith and belief than the 

 belief they profess to have in a God and a Bible as we 

 understand the Deity and that book. All this will have 

 to be changed once and for ever, unless we want to pay 

 not only for the cost of our own share of the War, but 

 Germany's share as well. 



As Lord Denbigh told us, as members of the London 

 Chamber of Commerce, when speaking of our enemy's war 

 aims, Germany has grown to be what she is by war and 

 war alone, and especially by the three short successful and 

 lucrative wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870. Germans have 



