NO COMMANDING FIGURE

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 10

NO COMMANDING FIGURE

"On tho European stage there is unhappily no vital centre of the multitude, no commanding figure who embodies the brain and will, and fires the imagination, of the Allied peoples," says Dr. E. J. Dillon, in, the Sunday Times. "Nay, one looks in vain for the sound business man of clear vision, firm resolve, and faith in the law of cause and effect and eager to achieve the one common end by a variety of means, instead of pursuing as at present many _ divergent aims by means which sometimes1 counteract each other."

"In a war for the life- or death of our nation, when it is proved that nothing can save us but an overwhelming superiority in men,' in munitions, in resources, when no heroism, no determination!, no sacrifices can take the placo of unity in command, rapidity of action, scenery in purpose, and sole responsibility free from promiscuous criticism, the one thing essential is io concentrate autltority," writes Mr. F. Harrison, in The Tiroes.

•'One able, fearless, practical man, with or without special genius, is worth moro than a whole, two dozen of masterly debaters, arguing - night after night, to a crowd of_voluble critics."