NO CO-ORDINATION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9

NO CO-ORDINATION

WHITEHALL IN WAR

DARDANELLES REPORT

PUBLICATION DEMANDED

Cnltea Treaa Association— By Electrio T«l««

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(Received 7th December, noon.)" LONDON, 6th December.' '"The public has the remedy in its own hands," declared Sir lan Hamil- [°, n \°. th? "Daily News" regarding Mr. Lloyd George's remarks on Gallipoli. "They ought to insist on the publication of the Dardanelles Commission's report. I agree that there was no co-ordination at Whitehall during die Dardanelles Expedition, ihe Departments of State were in steel-clad compartments. There will be no change until a Department of Defence is created to co-ordinate ao tion. The Commission's report contauis the opinions of witnesses on oath with the memory of events fresh in their minds. Some military reputations might -ot be quite so shining afterwards. What does that matter? Ihere can be no harm from the strategical and military viewpoint Speaking to the "Evening News," Sir lan Hamilton said: "Often during the past ten years I commented on the absurdity of continuing for the sake of two or three political reputations to keep dark that mine of interest, namely, the Dardanelles reP°rt- | he PuMic has been flapdoodled into imagining that the ac tual report published by the Royal Commission with a few extracts from the remarks of witnesses contained something approaching a precis of the whole matter. Nothing of the sort. Do you know what flapdoodle f"?? ls,? »lt is ** food they use to feed fools." "How much did we suffer in tho Great War," said Mr. Lloyd. George, 1 th* H°use of Commons, "because ? in I y was a war taking Place in Flanders and Gallipoli, but »ffl hall. That was far and away the greatest problem with which w/had to deal. It would have been far better from the viewpoint of efficiency if wo had had one.man in charge instead of an Admiralty and a War Office gVb. slrLtV m%\ ana eVen S^bUng in strategj. There was no doubt that when the whole story, of the Dardanelles was told it would be found that our failure was largely due to lack of co-ordination, without blaming anyone 1^? t art- ICU 1 lar- ," was Pre-eminently I strategical problem, only solvable by &« uS^S* C°-°rdi-«oa be*