The Prime Minister was not the only person unconcerned with odds and ends of this kind. When a German official, foreseeing the change to a long war of attrition, presented Moltke with a memorandum on the need for an Economic General Staff, Moltke replied, "Don't bother me with economics-I am busy conducting a war.
( Barbara W. Tuchman )
[ The Guns of August ]
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