A Private in the Guards

ISBN: 9781331204053 出版年：2016 页码：369 Stephen Graham Forgotten Books

But the Welshman, who was one of those who pursue Truth ungraciously, found that ultimate responsibility did not lie with the Army but with the Prime Minister, who was in turn responsible to Parliament, and Parliament was responsible to the whole people of Great Britain. That brought it back to the unwilling Welshman, and he said, You see, I should go to hell for it after all. I am afraid it is rather a matter for a Socrates or a Plato to decide. It is a palpable fact, however, that an army not founded on the responsibility of some one else would fare disastrously in the field and would disperse as did the Russian Army at the Revolution. And if the army fared thus, the nation might pass into bondage.