“POINTS OF VIEW.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 28 October 1922, Page 9

“POINTS OF VIEW.”

BIRKENHEAD’S BOOK. KITCHENER AND THE WAR. By Telegraph—Preen Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z Cable Association. (Received October 28. 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 27. Lord Birkenhead has published a book of essays entitled “ Points of View,” in which lie asserts that if Mr Churchill had been Prime Minister it was certain he would have won through the Dardanelles. I.ord Birkenhead, referring to Kitchener. states that Lord Esher failed to understand or value the indomitable Englishman, o who was the great outstanding figure of the war, and who would loom m historv as conspicuous as Foch. Kitchener never had an absolutely free hand, and he often had t compromise, since lie could not 6weep out the whole Cabinet, the Govern ment and the system. No living soldier could have made a tenth as much out of the actual situation as Kitchener made, and the fact that he had not made more was due to the governmental system. Lord Birkenhead controverte Lord Esher’s allegation that Kitchener would have liked to launch every gun he could collect from the West for an attack in the Near East, and says: - “ Kitchener never, either for the East or West, looked on the war as an indivisible whole. Lord Birkenhead eulogises the serenity with which Kitchener endured the Press campaign, instigated by ;» subordinate.