SOLDIERS AND POLITICIANS

Evening Star, Issue 21636, 3 February 1934, Page 13

SOLDIERS AND POLITICIANS

MUTUAL DISTRUST CESSATION URGED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 2. Mr A. Duff-Cooper, M.P., Lord Haig’s biographer, urges the cessation of soldiers’ and politicians’ mutual distrust. He declares: “Immediately a politician loses faith in a soldier he must resign or dismiss the soldier. Mr Lloyd George’s mistake was in distrusting Lord Haig and in lacking courage to dismiss him while doing his utmost to undermine him among his fellowcountrymen and allies, which was unpardonable, and for that reason the name politician stank in the nostrils of the Army. Nevertheless soldiers should acquire the politicians’ gift of the gab. Politicians have always won, though they are not always right. The German soldiers were wrong over Nurse Cavell, who was justly executed according to the rules of warfare, but any politican could. have told them that executing one woman would arm one hundred thousand men against Germany.- We should all bo soldiers and politicians.”