No one would endorse the Russian principle that a soldier’s quality is a function of his agreement with the political faith of the government; yet once relations are established between the politician and the Army a movement towards this principle is inevitable.
He critiques the dangerous intertwining of military loyalty and political ideology, warning against its implications.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
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