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Let us learn our lessons. Never believe that any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforseeable and uncontrollable events...Incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant forture, ugly surprise, awful miscalcualtions...