The Man Who Foresaw Russia's Failure Sir George Arthur, in an address in French to the London Anglo-French Society on Ear] Kitchener, revealed some minor but still highly interesting details concerning that great soldier and statesman. The most remarkable feature of speech, which was listened to with; the closest attention, was the revelation of Lord Kitchener's long prevision of the war with Germany.
All nord Kitchener's activities, said Sir George Arthur, were concerned with the great idea which he conceived 40 years before his death, that the great war was inevitable. He lone foresaw its length and dimensions, and the fact that Russia would not remain in the struggle to the end. In Noyember, 1915, he told the politicians that he was making his calculations on the certainty that Russia would he out of the war in 12 months, This would be shown by the foreword by Marechal Joffre to the French translation of Earl Kitchener's life, which will shortly be published in Paris, and in the preface by M. Poincaré. Earl Kitchener's prophetic views were given to General Joffre at Chantilly in November, 1915.
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