TUMBLED INTO THE WAR
LONDON, November 18. At an R.N.V.R. luncheon, presided over by Captain Lord Howe, R.N.V.R. General Sir lan Hamilton, proposing the toast of “The Royal Naval Division,” said that in all the books about •the war no one had taken ? the trouble to bring out forcibly enough the fact that British statesmen, militarily speaking, tumbled into the war absolutely blindfolded as regards plans. Ai though we were the mightiest nation that took part in the war—although we could have beaten the whole continent in arms given the friendly neutrality of the United States yet we had no part in the control and conduct, of the war. While Lord Kitchener received a very great deal of credit, and rightly so, for being the first man to prophesy that the war would last three years, what he deserved greater credit for still was that in 1909 he saw that the effect of the military conversations our General Staff were having with the French Genral Staff would end by . them leading us blindfolded into w r ar, hanging on anyhow to the French plans. _____
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1931, Page 8
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