MUDDLES OF WAR

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1934, Page 15

MUDDLES OF WAR

MEMOIRS OF MR. LLOYD GEORGE COMMENT BY MR. CHURCHILL. London, October 29. Mr. Winston Churchill, commenting on the fourth volume of the memoirs of Mr. Lloyd George, the war-time British Prime Minister, in the “Daily Mail,” says that the lay reader will accept the fact that the decisive victory the Allies gained was a hideous muddle, conducted throughout by knaves and fools. “Luckily, things were worse on the other side,” he added, “so thank God we won.”

“Mr. Lloyd George rightly saw that the defection of one ally from the enemy coalition would bring the whole structure clattering down. “For that reason he was anxious decisively to attack Turkey, yet Field-Mar-shal Sir William Robertson, the Chief of Staff, would not allow him more than half measures. A reneOfed thrust in the Dardanelles would have brought the Turkish position to an immediate crisis.

“I always held with Mr. Lloyd George’s view on Passchendaele, and have not read a more massive and sombre indictment than Mr. Lloyd George's attack on Earl Haig and Sir William Robertson, whose drive through the mud at Passchendaele lost 400,000 men and almost broke the heart of the British Army.”