A TRUE PATRIOT

Southland Times, Issue 17655, 12 February 1916, Page 3

A TRUE PATRIOT

“I wish those who attack Kitchener could realise how splendidly h© has behave In these last weeks. At the critical moment the soldier in him comes uppermost. anj he goes deliberately to see for himself and to take the fullest responsibility on his own shoulders for any difficult or dangerous decision that may have Lo he taken,'’ writes Atr J. A. Spender in the Westminster Gazette. "He has shown himself a tine gentlernann and a true patriot, and you may absolutely dismiss from your mind all malicious gossip which suggests that lie has acted in pique or temper or petty discontent with the worries of Whitehall. Nothing in all his career does him greater honour, and no man in thesetimes deserves better of his countrymen. •"Of course, there have been muddles and difficulties at the. War Office, and a few weeks of the Prime Minister's cool, clear brain will he good for that department. But if you know of any other department which could have multiplied itself ten or twelve times in the same number of months without muddles and difficulties, please tell me where to find it; and if you know any man who saw more clearly than K. the big outlines of the problem at the beginning of the war, or who drove straighter lo their soluti&ii, I should like to know ins name.”