POSTERITY AND CHURCHILL When a statesman says that he is content to leave his action to the judgment of history, criticism is disarmed, because nobody is qualified to speak for posterity. One may be permitted to wonder, nevertheless (says an English writer), whether our remote descendants will wipe off the campaigns of Mesopotamia and of Palestine as of no account, and agree with Mr Churchill that General Maude and General Allenby had nothing in front of them after the Gallipoli campaign but “the leavings, the remnants, broken and discouraged,’' of the armies,
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Evening Star, Issue 16994, 17 March 1919, Page 3
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92Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 16994, 17 March 1919, Page 3
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