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[G.M. Trevelyan]
Tel: 1688
Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge.
Oct. 13. 1932
Dear John
The 'stinking' pride is all mine, to get such a letter from you, the Scot of Scots. Perhaps the dedication will "do me good" over the border. At least the Scotsman and Glasgow Herald reviewers have accepted my account of it, in spite of the brewing up of nationalism.
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I do not expect universal acceptance, but with your approval I shall not care what a Scot of them says.
I am glad you like the battle pieces. I am now at Malplaquet. Exaggerated as was the Tory outcry over the 'butchers bill', I confess it appears to me to have been something very near a mistake on the Duke's part. Of course he expected the French to run away in panic after a hard fight, as before.
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Then he could have got to Paris. But our damned folly at the Hague a few weeks before had made better men of them than he expected.
Yrs ever G.M.T.
On the whole I am glad he did not get to Paris. The results of our "getting to Paris" in 1928 grow worse every day. And Louis offered us such good terms as Ludendorf (uncrushed) would never have let Germany do.
