MUTUAL DISTRUST
SOLDIERS AND POLITICIANS PLEA FOR ITS CESSATION (Received February 2, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 2 Mr. A Duff Cooper, Conservative member of the House of Commons for Sl>. George's, Westminster, tho late Earl Hair's biographer, urges a cessation of soldiers' and politicians' mutual distrust. He declares that imuwdiately a politician loses faith in a soldier he must resign or dismiss the soldier. Continuing, Mr. Cooper says: "Mr. Lloyd George's mistake was in distrusting Lord Haig and lacking the courage to dismiss him while lw was doing his
uiinost to undermine him among his fallow countrymen and the Allies. That wis unpardonable and because of it tho name ' politician ' stunk in the nostrils oi: the Army. " Nevertheless soldiers should acquire tie politician's 'gift of tho gab.' Politicians have always won though they have not always been right. " The German soldiers were wrong over Nurse Cavell, who was justly executed according to the rules of warfare, but any politician could have told them tliat to execute one woman,would arm 1C 0,000 men against Germany. Wo slould all be soldiers' politicians.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 11
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