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here was the right man in the right place. The truth is, says Disclosures by His Closest the K. of K. of the Sudan and Lord Esher. "he was no longer Friend.
South Africa, and he only as yet was aware of the tragic fact." His disapproval of a strategy To understand the man is confined to the Western Front is to appreciate bis dilemma:
well known. His heart was set Arabia deserta seems to me too a grand campaigo in the Near be the key of Lord Kitchener's East, and, being unable to carry character and methods says his his point in this, the result was uch is the proposal of his biographer). The spirit of the procrastination and delay and closest friend. Lord Esher, whose sand, like the spirit of the sea, misunderstanding. book, "The Tragedy of Lord puts an unconscious constraint We zet A poignant picture Kitchener." published last month, upon the nature of a man. Lord of Lord K. ia
Surprising statements regard- Kitchener's, aloofness, patience. It was just subsequently to ing Kitchener's alleged hesitancy slowness if you will, were the the heart cry from the front for and indecision in times.of crisis outcome of life lived in solitude, more shells. He was then living are made in the book.
where the passage of time count at York House," which had been From a journal kept during theed for very little. When, lent to him by the Eing, for years 1914 to 1918. and from be thought of war it was after whose friendabip Lord K was!! correspondence, Lord Esher has the manner of Darios-slow-mov. never weary of expressing grati-İ Eashioned a picture of Lord Jing hordes concentratioz slowly tude." Kitchener that will rank as upon their objective with fatal raluable piece of biography. It method. He took no heed of the YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.soldier by one who was his friend.
-13-a Frat-hand account of a great lightning stroke of Napoleon. a note of his extant dated the 14th May, 1915, which contains the and intimately associated with
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him so steadfastly in the past but he was unable, it seems, to wounded animal. had lef: him. It is a poignant communicate it to purs. He The shell controversy, 8a78 picture. It is the tragedy of had no gift of verbal expression Lord Esber, "illuminates both Hamlet. A Samson shorn of his and no mind for persuasion: the strength and the weakness of locks grimly acquiescent in his before a Cabinet of 23 he was Lord Kitchener, his disregard of broken majesty.
powerless. He had no belief in self, his high bearing in the face KEPT FROM PRYING EYES.
such a body. And the pity of it of obloquy, his charity to his From his journal and corres- was, says Lord Esher:
critics, and his loyalty to his pondence. Lord Esher quotes li-
"You walked away from Lord subordinates. But it also displays berally for the purpose of illus K's room feeling that although him as unreceptive to new ideas. rating his sombra story, but the our system of conducting a great as disinclined to adopt new wealth of material upon which bewar was misguided, and be knew methods which he himself did has drawn he does not propose it, yet he was no longer the Knot originate-alow to take ad- shall see the light during bis of K. qualified to find a remedy. i vantage of the experience of! lifetime.
Cromwell was 46 years of age lesser meu." "If I remain of the same mind. when he changed the Govern. COMPULSORY SERVICE and can obtain the assent of my ment of England, and bad Lord On the question of compulsory co-trustees of the British Muse K. been able to divest himself of serviceLord Kitchener was lum," he says in a prefatory note, 20 years, had he been the lithe, "the docu neats will be sealed up wiry horseman of the Sudan, the
vague and unsettled."
That he could bare turned thei for 60 years, the duration of re-control and course of the war scale both in the Cabinet and in ticence selected by the author of might have taken a different the country.... was beyond member of the Cabinet bad com-and his motives pure." "Waverley," when they may be course:
question. For B variety of plained that he was wanting in of use to "some artist engaged in"
reasons, поде of which he caudour and too fond of what putting into perspective a picture Used all his life to acting in-ever expounded, and at which were supposed to be Oriental of the years 1914 to 1918“. dependently Lord Kitchener was we can only guess, be refused methods," he said quite humbly: At present it is sufficient that so sad a disadvantage at to ask his colleagues for fresh "Yes, I suppose it is so; but I Lord Esher, who was spetsodal collective action that his col- Parliamentary power. friend of Lord Kitchener, tells us leagues did not accord him the
am an old man and I cannot The miasms of Downing Street change my habits it is too late." only so much as will, belje any support of their confidence. And acted upon him like a spell, Lord intention on his part to enter into "during thosemontha which under Esher tells us. "He procrastin-Esher's commentary,
It was strange," is Lord a vulgar competition with others circumstances more adapted to ated; counted beads sud weighed colleagues should have failed to "that his authorities, be attempted deliberate and refused to act.”
to realize is worthiness and high- mindedness, notwithstanding bl speech for his borizon WEE wide Cromwelisa gush of incoherent
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in disclosures about Kú of K. fall manifestation of his peculiar When Kitchener of Ebartoum gifta might have proved to be the took control of the War Office on grand epoch of his life his steps the 5th of August, 1914, there was began to falter and his influence to
I AM AN OLD MAN,”. When told that an eminent
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orographer continues:
The
He was well aware that the mass of his countrymen, all the world over, believed in his disinterested patriotism, sades stronghanded grasp of the war's essential meaning, and that they, with the King at their head, trusted in his leadership. The common people were NOË concerned with the F processes, the mediocre region. ing the stolld appe
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