Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 248
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as little of their lives as we do of the Martians who are supposed to inhabit Mars There it is you can travel from any part of the world you like until you reach this barrier, you are then in a place which no power which has ever been produced in this world can break, not all the money not nor the inventions, nor the labour the brain, nor the physical power in the whole world has yet been able to pass, the German nation for reasons of its own, has put this barrier across another peoples country, & made a fool of the civilised world, but there will come a day when that line will snap like thread, & English & French armies will pour in their thousands on to the promised land
So much for that outburst, I suppose some people would call me a fool