Non-PRO English to Spanish Other Military / Defense

Context:

"I remember his passing a polished and almost Meredithian epigram to me in class: it was, I regret to say, an unfriendly reflection on the French master, and even on the French nation in his person; but I remember thinking, even at the time, that it was rather a French thing to do."

Source: Letters to my wife by Robert E. Vernede