Lord Derby, speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday,
said very truly that it was the duty of the Government to get rid of persons in whom they had lost confidence, and it was equally their duty loyally to support those in whom they retained confi- dence. He himself had confidence in our Generals, and asked the House to believe that the Government had. Lord Derby's loyalty is beyond question, and his words were excellent. But once again he could not speak for the Prime Minister. We would ask the War Cabinet to consider earnestly the grave danger of undermining the confidence of the soldiers at the front in their chiefs. That was the way in which the Russian Anarchists began their fatal work of destroy- ing their country. There are, of course, no Bolsheviks in the British Army, but loss of confidence promoted by these sinister and per- sistent attacks on Sir William Robertson and Sir Douglas Haig might easily work mischief. We observe that the Daily Mail, the chief promoter of the campaign against our trusted Generals, is now describing itself as "The Soldiers' Friend." Comment is needless.
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