IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF 1914"
PARALLEL DRAWN BY SIR lAN HAMILTON LONDON, February 12. General Sir lan Hamilton, addressing the British Legion, declared: “We are following closely in the footsteps of 1914. As then, we have so tied our hands that it is impossible honourably to approach any other ally than France. The next step in 1914 was to place armed forces at France’s disposal, resulting in Marshal Joffre and Sir John French wasting all our gun ammunition at Festubert and Loos when we were trying to carry out a world strategy at the Dardanelles. “Let us pray that this has completed the parallel, because Herr Hitler and Field-Marshal Goring are far more formidable than were the Kaiser and General von Moltke. We must hold up the first shot, whether of an umbrella, a bottle, or anything.” ■
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22635, 14 February 1939, Page 9
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