The War and Finance

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Excerpt from The War and Finance: How to Save the SitutationBritish bear them patiently. They are too indolent to revolt, too phlegmatic to shout and curse. Somehow the wars get ended, no one quite knows how. A good deal of tosh is talked about glory, a few sane people see the mistakes that have been made and try to prevent war Offices and politicians from repeating these mistakes. But usually these sane people are more or less ashamed of their criticisms. They think they are unpatriotic. The general public never has any doubt on the question.After all, what does it matter, says John Bull as he Shrugs his shoulders and pays the bill.John Bull paid a bill of eighty millions for the Crimean War, and another Of two hundred millions for the Boer War, and never winked an eyelid. His trade went on smoothly. If a few people found their returns go down, a dozen others were making money out of war contracts. In every war that England has been engaged in since the Napoleonic era the motto Business as usual has been apposite and appropriate. However much has had to be paid out, there has always been more coming in.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.