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The Spectator at war: Attention deficit

From ‘A Plea for Posterity’, The Spectator, 6 March 1915:

A good many people have latterly argued that as posterity will enjoy the advantages of a successful war, so posterity may honourably be left to pay for those advantages in the shape of yearly interest upon a swollen National Debt.

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