"Every man will, therefore, prepare self to do his duty, whatever it may be, with special pride and care. Our fleet and flotillas are powerful and numerous. Our air force is at the highest strength it has ever reached, and it is conscious of its proved superiority, not indeed numbers but in men and machines.
"Our shores are well fortified end ready to attack the invaders we have strongly manned, and behind them a far larger and better equipped modern army than we have ever had before. Besides this, we have more than one and a half million men of the Home Guard, now just as much soldiers of the regular army in status as the Grenadier Guards, who are mined to fight for every inch of every village and every
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