Andy Germer

“Their main disagreement was about how British liberal civilization was best defended. Cecil proposed a combination of international organization, naval power, and a good dose of general disarmament, whereas Hankey stressed preserving a certain “military spirit” to stem decadence among the population. “Just as we are prone to wonder at the spectacle of the camps of the Roman armies filled by barbarians at a time when the Italian cities were crowded with men on the dole,” he wrote in a letter to Cecil, “so the historians of the future may be puzzled at the phenomenon of an army . . . which cannot complete its ranks at a time when one million males are receiving unemployment benefit.”
― Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War