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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

Intelligence Squared

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The Importance of the Role of Lloyd George in Germany

Dominic Sandbroke: Would we really have been able to keep an Empire if we'd stayed out? Then the lady in the middle here, stand up, issue with your hand up there. That's my opinion. Empire is going to be lost anyway so not worth 5'4". Lady down there. Yes, go ahead. John Charmely said that the Germans would have won but then because of their pre-World War I internal problems wouldn't have been ableTo hang on to anything despite the obvious resources of manpower they would have gained through winning. The job of the proposition for the motion has in fact been to convince us that the problems could have been solved otherwise. Margaret

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