STORY OF THE WAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 9

STORY OF THE WAR

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S MEMOIRS FIRST VOLUME REVIEWED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 7. (Received Sept. 7, at 10 p.m.) The newspapers give extensive extraeti from the first volume of Mr Lloyd George's War Memoirs, just published, which carries the story of the war to autumn, 1915. Mr Lloyd George says he had almost decided, not to write a war book. For years he shrank from publication of horrifying details, be felt that the story must be told in order to avoid future calamity. While it is claimed that the volume is a valuable contribution to history, the Morning Post says: " Its evidential value is much diminished by the incessantly controversial note. It is possible to give Mr Lloyd George full credit for his invaluable services to Britain and the Allies, without believing that he was always right and everybody else always wrong. The reader is taught to conclude that if he could have been Captain General of the Army, Lord High Admiral of the Fleet, and absolute dictator at Downing street, everything would have gone much better because all the tragic blunders of that prolonged struggle were due to a perverse refusal to follow his advice." The reviewer asks whether Mr Lloyd George obtained permission to publish all the documents in the book, which had hitherto been treated as confidential.