The only two men who really seem to understand that we are at war are Winston and Lloyd George. Both have faults which disgust one peculiarly at the present time, but there is a reality about them and they are in earnest, which the others aren't.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The only two men who really seem to understand that we are at war are Winston and Lloyd George. Both have faults which disgust one peculiarly at the present time, but there is a reality about them and they are in earnest, which the others aren't." in the context of "F. S. Oliver, letter to his brother (4 March 1915), quoted in The Anvil of War: Letters Between F. S. Oliver & His Brother, 1914–1918, ed. Stephen Gwynn (1936), p. 92" to mean that wisdom is timeless.