There were two methods of treating the Battle of Jutland, and one might roughly classify them as the scientific and the emotional. To a non-naval audience it was generally supposed that it was the emotional which made the greater appeal. "He did not entirely agree with that view. In any case it was quite 1m-possible for them to enter realistic cally into the sensations of those crowded hours six years ago, w: less they had in their minds a general outline of the sequence of events. He would start, therefore, with a simple yet technical account of the action.
"Bub first, I want to tell you this little story," said the lecturer.
naval officer and a lawyer were once discussing strategy, and the lawyer asked the naval officer a question which stumped him. He took refuge with the. remark, Well, you see old chap, its awfully hard to explain to you because you are yer replied, 'We lawyers consider exceedingly difficult, to realize that educated people can under-what was happening, said~ the stand anything, provided it is in-lecturer. As we now knew from telligently explained.' their reports, the Germans did not "So that if you don't understand understand what was happening this first part, its quite obvious any more than we did. What where the blame will lie." they did-grasp, and grasp very soundly, was that each ship and
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