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$arkham ha" Pyle

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About the authors:

GMW Wemyss lives and "rites, "isely pseudonymously, in ilts. 2aving, by

invoking the protective colouration of t"eeds, cricket, and country matters,

someho" evaded immersion in $ercury "hilst up at *niversity, he survived to

become the author of The Confidence of the House: May 1940 and of Sensible Places:

essays on lace, ti!e, " countryside, as "ell as of the #illa$e Tales series of novels,

beginning "ith %&'34s Cross and Poy%

Markham Shaw Pyle, author of &enevolent 'esi$ns: The Countess and the (eneral:

(eor$e )ashin$ton, Selina Countess of Huntin$don, their corresondence, " the

evan$eli*in$ of +!erica, and 5ools, 'run-s, and the .nited States/: +u$ust 1, 1941,

holds his undergraduate and la" degrees from ashington 6 0ee. 2e is a past

or current member of, inter alia, the 7rgani8ation of American 2istorians9 the

ociety for $ilitary 2istory9 the outhern 2istorical Association9 the

outh"estern ocial cience Association9 the outh"estern 2istorical

Association9 the outh"estern Political cience Association9 the irginia

2istorical ociety9 and the e;as tate 2istorical Association.

ogether, they are the partners in Bapton Books, and co


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Night of the Jackal: VV Putin & Ukraine

Putin ? and it really is !uite remarkably

difficult not to "rite that as, @Putain4 ? is not,

personally or as leader of his kleptocratic,

kakistocratic regime, bold by nature. Bullies and jackals are

never bold: they crumble and scuttle "hen opposed "ith

firmness. ladimir ladimirovich is not bold: he has been

e!boldened%

hat he and his regime vie" *kraine in the fashion in

"hich the Pdophile nformation #;change vie"ed nine'

notably failed to take account of egetius4 ma;im, Si vis

ace!, ara bellu!% eakness, irresolution, and the failure to

dra" clear lines and !aintain the!


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constituted ? as the militarists in =apan in the '>3&s

constituted9 as the in Pakistan today constitute ? an

i!eriu! in i!erio% n the aftermath of the assassination of

the Archduke at arajevo, Austria


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support of ervia, and the Erench and -ermans been dra"n

in in respective support of Cussia and of Austria


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localised. 2ad 2$- made it clear that Cussian mobilisation

should cause the *nited +ingdom and the British #mpire to

"ash their hands of $osco", Erance, if not Cussia, should

have acted so differently as to have stopped the spread of

"ar. 2ad 2$- made it clear that the first party to intervene

in the Austro


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embrace pacifism. 7r as $r Pyle puts it, n this "orld, until

the econd /oming, those "ho beat their s"ords into

ploughshares end up doing the ploughing for those "ho kept

their s"ords.

n '>', the /abinet "ere deep in the toils of rish 2ome

Cule, had a precarious "orking majority o"ing only to rish

support, and kne" that if the -overnment fell, 2ome Cule

should fall "ith it. Accordingly, despite an abyssal division

"ithin the 0iberal Party and the /abinet, they felt ? !uiffy in

particular felt ? it imperative to make any conceivable

concessions to his internal opponents, to keep the party and

the -overnment together. (he greatest threat to any Prime

$inister ? al"ays ? does not face him across the Despatch

Bo;, but rather sits beside him on his Eront Bench.) adly, the

faction As!uith "as determined to assuage "as the @peace at

any price4 set of Cadical 0iberals, supported by /P cott andtheManchester (uardian%Fhe chances missed on %H =uly '>',

for e;ample, to stop or localise the "ar, "ere due "holly to

the doomed attempt to keep on side the peace


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$orley and Cunciman, 2arcourt and imon.

-eorge 0ansbury "as a dear, s"eet man, a patriot, a

committed /hristian, and an all


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harmless by a /arthaginian peace.G(Cussia is not, as it fancies

itself,the @hird Come49 it is /arthage, $oloch and all. 6r$o,

delenda est%)

his does not yet mean "ar, and -od forbid it ever should.

t does mean e;traordinary measures, re!uiring far more

effort and money than should have been "anted to prevent

the "retched situation4s arising. t "ants the addition of $r

Putin and his entire regime to the $agnitsky 0ist9 the

cancelling of the -


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"ith persons "ho, after the manner of the aliban, then

become the ne;t threat "ith "hich "e in the est must deal.

1evertheless, all options must no" be on the table, from a

ne" tu;net to arming the bloody /hechens9 and all because

a gang of fools encouraged the Putin regime, by the sheer

supineness of @reset buttons4 and -


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