HIDEOUS MUDDLE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20455, 7 November 1934, Page 1

HIDEOUS MUDDLE.

Lloyd George’s Review of War. 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 bv knaves and fools.

“ Luckily things were worse on the other side,” he added, “ so thank God “Mr Lloyd George rightly saw that the defection of one ally from the enemy coalition would bring the whole structure clattering down. Sombre Indictment. “ For that reason he was anxious decisively to attack Turkey, vet FieldMarshal Sir. William Robertson, the Chief of Staff, would not allow him to take more than half measures. A renewed 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 Llovd 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.”