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North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13984, 21 November 1917, Page 4

,e I INTER-ALLIED CONTROL. "'.lt is deeply significant, ns tin «.| Washington correspondent of Tin j Now York Times puts it, tlia g j President. Wilson's endorsemen I of the policy of an Inter-Alliei Council (j[ Control, ns enumerate* 7 ' by Mr Lloyd George in the cours ■ • j of his Paris speech, should syn i chronise with the opening of tin House of Commons debate on ilii d vital question, It should' 'inferos it Mr Asquith to know that Presi if dent Wilson endorses Mr Lloy< t George's proposal and the Unitei i- States considers unity in the plai il of control of the War essential i :s. the resources of the United State are to be used to the.best advan d Inge. It is not-difficult to under e stand the attitude of a certain sec h lion—the opportunists—of tin t House of Commons. The boge; e raised by The Daily News tlia e the proposed Inter-Allied Wa i- Council would have the effect o t' establishing a military dictator e ship, was exploded by the Primi i- Minister's clear statement that tin 0 functjons of t'lie proposed Wni k Council will bo .to organise tin c resources of the Allies without r any usurpation of the' executive y powers of the Governments con t corned. If the military dcbacli ii on the Isonza. front has demon e strated anything, it has revealec s the vital necessity for more rca 'i co-ordination of military effort - The great battle front whicl [i stretches from the English Chan y nel to the Adriatic, must no longei ■, be regarded as sections of. a wai , of many nations, but as one soli* 1 wall of steel under the control of i 1 combination of the best brains ol s the combatants concerned. Mi • Asquith has clearly misinterpret e< i Mr Lloyd George's Paris speech 1 He did. not advance an answei ' to the Prime Minister's contention [', that the Allies had suffered by 1 lack of co-ordination. It is not argument against the proposer I Council to say that Mr Lloyc -1 George regaled the people of Pari; ) j with irrelevant rhetoric ; nor is tin ~ statement of what Britain liar 3 achieved during the war,' relevant - to a discussion on the co-ordination • ' of the Allied military effort. : Mi ) Lloyd George declared that he - _ went to Paris for a deliberate pur 1 ,1)0:51!': "to dt'livoy till nnpleasflul i ■ speech," He made'up his mind tc ': take rinks, He delivered , the i' speech, He took risks and hi: : Speech electrified the world—"it , was talked about, on two or three ' continents." The Prime Minister i knows* nothing of military start--1 ejf-y, but he understands human ' nature; It is distinctly refreshing ' to picture this man of bewildering ' intellectual activity and tireless ' energy standing before his critics ■ and refusing to wilhdraw a single , 'syllable of a speec}] which had been ' described as a "cruel, false and mis ' I chievous slander on Great Britain; ■ja speech which invites our Allies • to distrust and condemn us; a speech which belittles our own 'Sacrifices.'' In a stirring utterance, Mr Lloyd George swept his • ' critics aside like so many ninepins. | He, was kind to Mr Asquith. He ' ' could havo trounced the_loading • I exponent of the "jvait and sec" ■ 1 policy, bnt ho-refrained. : The ■ Prime Minister dealt.with-prlno.i----i pies, not individuals. "All this talk about easterners and ■western- : ers is nttoiv baldnrdfish—the field ! ii; in the/iioj'lh. tile south, the c'n\f !*and the west,'' lie declared with 1 telling 'emphasis,. The co-ordinated effort of; the -iCllics can. smash ■PrussiairMilitarism'. There is only "'one other danger" now lU '•submarine menace is' being countered. The danger ; of ' ' lack

t 4i, ,of unity.". Once more tlub r«« •o-markable man—this *" pettyfofe-, I, gingtahlSwjrer"aatkt'supeV;' >r eilio\ia meihUet* of the House *)f e Lords dubbed the present Prime ie' Minister Borne years ago—has again is demonstrated his claim, to be reii garded as the strong inan of the 1- nation.