GREAT MEN OF THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 26, 25 October 1921, Page 5

GREAT MEN OF THE WAR

“’Tell mo of ono man who so grew in stature during the Great War that he seemed to touch the skies! I do not know of any, unless it bo tho private soldier and the seaman,” writes Mr. Lovat Fraser in the “Sunday Pictorial.” “Foch was nearest to tho giants, and well it would have been for him if he had pvithdrawn to his farm when the Peace Treaty was signed. Beatty 'might have been foremost had not cruel Fate thrice robbed him of his chances, first nt tho Dogger Bank, next at Jutland, and filially on that day in August, 1916, of which the nation knows little, when he was ordered to 'turn at once.’ French had his moments, and the greatest was when he saved the Channel ports. Allenby marching to Armageddon, Henry Wilson, foolishly shelved until the last year, Gourami breaking tho final thrust of the Germans before Rheims in July, 1918, all bulk large in retrospection.”