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1952.

SO HAIG HIMSELF WAS QUITE AN INTRIGUER

behind the classic clash with Lloyd George

is claimed by the by FRANK OWEN

publishers, that Lord

Haig's private papera throw a new light on history. It will be allowed by every careful reader that they throw quite a new light on Lord Haig.

.

Western

was

an

Lloyd George "Eastemer." He belleved that

Thus Field Marshal belleved that the war could be Frenchia "unfit to com- won nowhere else but on the Front. He thought, mand Generals Sir Henry that if only he could be given Wilson and Sir Henry Raw- enough men ho could break linson are "humbugs, Mar- through. ahal Foch is untrust The writer presents his worthy," "a schemer" and own personality as that, of "useless", a simple, selfless, dedicated Boldler, who only wanted to win the war, while, the in triguing politicians only wanted to win votes.

CUR GASBAG

a

is

is

a

for the politicians! Lloyd George is The diary informs us, "cur." Bonar Law

"feeble." Lord Milner however, that alrendy In

" tired, aýapéptic old the first week of the war

Lord Curzon is (August 11, 1914) the man simple soldier was busily "gasbag." "It is a rest to own old have Sir Edward Carson to denigrating his

Winston friend and present Com- lunch

He s AD mander-in-Chief, Field Churchill.

after

we could not spare the vast numbers of men needed to break through that mighty rampart of mud, mines, barbed wire, and concrete pill-boxes.

He thought that we could turn the enemy flank instead, possibly in the Balkans, pos albly in Italy. After the Battle of Loos in 1916, where the 60,000 British Army sacrificed

men to gain a few acres nt trenches, Lloyd George was in promised "brenicthrough" in the

West.

who came nearest to breaking through in the West when they attacked in March 1918,

It has been asserted that Holg had been deliberately starved of meh, and therefore, is not to be blamed for this near-disaster.

It is certainly true that Lloyd George was unwilling to go on providing, him with unlimited drafts for what he called "thesS fatuous,

bull-headed Zatal, offensivca,"

Haig's diary shows that (a) Halg was given repeated warn- ing of the impending enemy, offensive, and (b) that he wrote that his only anxiety was that it might be cancelled.

IT WAS HAIG THEN the blow fell General

W

- Halz, Joffre, Lloyd George. Date: September:1915. Place'i France,

Discussion 7. The Breakthrough ; nose KLOEs quinient look,

GEORGE V

BACKED HIM

R Papers is the field. in sanorance,

1

EVEALED in the Haig tainly decided to keep the King

marshal's friendship With a wood Halg WAS

Buskingham to rette per farle, thram with King George V-his

Palico He upon Faris, threaten-

battle wrote that the King "was ing to break contact with the best friend in the

furious with Lloyd George and said he was to to him to British Army. Then, in a hurry, with Lloyd George. Halg himself telegraphed urging command over both armies. So much the diary testifles,

Marshal Sir John French, straightforward and angle with further and even costlier that Foch be appointed in the

"genial Judas,"

He continued to do so until minded," Lord Derby is a French

was sacked, and superseded by himself.

Throughout its pages the nuthor continues to damn his military superiors, equals, subordinates, and

allies.

The Private Papers of Douglas Haig, 2024-2012. Edited by Robert Blake (Byre and Spottiswoode, 25.).

And our Allies! Well, for the French "the nearest way to their hearts, in- cluding that of the General. issima (Joffre) is down their throats."

When Halg followed up Loos

failures on the Somme, at Passchendaele, and Cambrai the had 200,000 casualties

In killed, wounded and missing in months), Lloyd George 15

doubted for the job of me was the man for the job of military

leadership, anyway.

So Lloyd

to George sought set up a Supreme Allied Com- Hoig's tonulne differences mand above Halg. In the end, with Lloyd George went deep. it was forced on him by harsh Germans Haig, was a "Westerner," He events. 1

was, the

The King was his powerful marrow." alde, too, In Haig's intrigues

The King warned Haig not to against Sir John French

resign, or Lloyd George might inter Lord Ypres) and Kitchen- tall on election and win a great

majority.

It is claimed, at the samo. er. time, that it was therefore Halg In 1815 French bungled the

The Holg-Lloyd George feud

who was really responsible for battle of Loos by refusing to setting up, the Supreme Allied hand over the reserves to llaig went on oven after victory.

Command!

History will surely bo illumined afresh by the new light which is cast by this final beam from the diary of Lord Holg.

Tuva-Lesson In Imperialism

Tannu

Soviet

F you fly 2,000 miles due North from Ran- goon you will reach the wild and mountainous frontier of Tannu Tuva. Of all the many territories

By

outposts of the forces. The

in time to exploit a break-

an

through. French, in a deceitful Lloyd George arranged

drive through report, blamed Halg, who Im- allied victory mediately wrote to Kitchener, London with Itale in the fifth

A week later he was

coach. This was "nore telling Lord Haldane,

cf an insult Chan can and then Lord Robert-

put up with, even son, the Chief of the General Staff. Finally the King himself should go.

tivised that French

place.

The King

-by- THOMAS

WILSON

The Prime Minister.

from

The real truth, which history will show. is.

that the British Army

has won the war.

told Asquith, then Premier. In France in spite of L. G., and French went. Haig took his I have no intention of taking part in any triumphal ride with It was in 1910 that the King Foch, or with had written secretly to Halg:

any, pack of the streets "I hope you will from time to foreigners, through time write to me quite freely...'s importance and help him of London, mainly to add to Naturally I shall consider your Communist letters in the strictest con- in his election campaign.”; most gloring ndence." So wh

when, a year later, Haig munist aggression has already learned of a Lloyd George plan brought the nations to

Haig's the to replace him by a Frenchman,

diaries are shot brink of a third world war. he Wrote

promptly to the King through with fear for Franch telling all and offering his re mirade and distrust of their In face of all these facts, let signation. Lord Stamfordham, generalship and fighting ability, us remember Tannu Tava, in the King's private, secretary,

'example is. Korea, where Com- HUGH SUTHERLAND

which have fallen victims contrary," he wrote, "am in majority of the designs of Soviet full agreement with the Moslems,

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most remote and certainly the most forgotten.

Few people could tell you where it is. In fact, it lies in the very heart of Rus- sian Asia, just North of the 50th parallel. It is there Cracow, Prague, Luxem bourg, Dieppe, and Winni

fore in the same latitude as

peg.

king.

In 1913 it was therefore decided to appoint a special "border commission for Tannu Tuva.

. of Central

Asian

can

.Nor did he.

this eighth year of its subjuga replied that the War Cabinet's In February 1918 he was my- But in the early 1920's, in a tion. And, above all, let us decision had not reached the ing. French troops and command- move designed to undermine head the grave warning it pro-King until four days after the ers were good; but a month Moslem strength, and to rein- nounces to all other peoples Calais conference at which Halg later he wrote; "There are not

Imagine they

be learned of the plan, force Communist rule, the two who

many officers in the French staff were formally an "protected" by the Soviet Lloyd George, probably aware with gentlemanly' Ideas. They Repubiles nexed to the Soviet Union and Unice and not become exploited of Haig's royal: triendship and are out to get as much from the the Turkestan! BSR was. dir. colonies,

past Intrigues, had almost cer- "British; as "They posilbly can,” “ Outer Mon banded. Their land was divided golia also claimed 'jurisdic. Into the Kazakh. Kirghiz Tadz- tion over Tannu Tuva, but hik, Turkmen and Uzbek SSR's, the Russian Government which effectively split up the compact mass of Moslem peoples to the Soviet Union, continued successfully oppose

the unification of Tuva with Mongolia, desired by the people of Tuva, and It has an area roughly to work for the establish equal to that of Korea, and ment of a Russian protec- a population of 70,000. To torate.

the East of it extends Lake Baikal. To the South, be.

yond the desolation of the Tannu-ola Mountains, is the.

AN OBLAST

Soviet dominated Outer N-1918-Tannu Tuva-was- again occupied by Chin-

Mongolia. Still further to the South are the creeping ese troops, but in the early sand dunes, the bitter lakes, twenties, the Red Army re- and the buried cities of the established Russian control and the "Tuvinian People's Gobi

Republic" was created.

་

•

Sovlet propaganda claims that these republies have the status of Independent states. But these claims are absurd, and are en- refuted by the text of tirely Article 14, which defines in the snost sweeping terms the powers "reserved" to the Contral Gov- ernment in Moscow.

The list of "reserved powers" runs to 24 detailed sub-sections,

the

Let's Face Up to Facts About this Friction

-asked-Colonel J. with "the weedy:

New York, Tuesday. Anglo-American friction is a what precipitately had drawn,up Tthe English-Speaking delicate subject, and the best his list of Cabinet Ministers for

Elsenhower's approval, hasn't. brains here are not ignoring it. Union the other day I

The New York Times, dealing got what he wanted."" government.. It leaves

If the British had fears about anti-American- tons ng all the principal dune-

dis- news

that it is exasperat Taft's vast influence they are no shadow of independence to Astor, chairman of The

subjugated, including as Times, about

ing, but

urges that it be not proved unfounded. . ́ does such vital matters as war patches from London re- togon test

Here the fears are moro, can- and peace, diplomatic relations, porting British coolness to The Wall Street Journal talks centrated, on....... Mr. Eisenhower's defence, taxation, trade and

Mr Eisenhower. Colonel of "hysterics in Britain" and trip to Korea. The President- education.

Astor said almost everyone, says some British statements elect is shattering precedient.

"are . But, if few people

Article 14, in fact, reduces the except one

turning. Mos

Morcow's Pravda He is going to the firing-line at or two indivi- locate Tannu Tuva without On August 17, 1944,

repubiles to a

considerable personal risk---Ho green with envy, ducks in Parliament, had The selection of John Foster is taking a big chance, the aid of an atlas, fewer special session of the Little sub-colonial status, still can remember any of Hural (Governmental Coun. publics are the creatures of the confidence in, and affection Dulles as Secretary of State has merely on his own safety but touched off more reports of Bri, his town reputation and contralised bureaucracy of a for, President-elect its history and what hap- cil) of Tuva signed a peti- rigidly centraised empire, and hower,

tish pique and annoyance. If not

popularity. It he comes. back to the they retain not a vestige of re-

downright suspicion, pened there eight years ago. tion addressed

bf the empty-handed his Administra Supreme Soviet of the eponsible self-government. USSR, asking for Tuva's incorporation in the Soviet THREE VICTIMS Union. The wishes of the

ANNEXATION

Can

Û union

RUSSIA had, long had de people were not considered; signs on Tannu Tuva, there was no plebiscite or While Mongolia was part referendum. of China, Tannu Tuva,`

known then

the as

The Fresidium

1

servile The re-

Eisen

not

An American reporter, who forthcoming Eisenhower At- tion could start on a note of was in the group at the English-ministration. We are being told failure. Speaking Union, asked Colonel Astor about reports of brawis and friction in England between American troops and Dritish

been

DON IDDON'S DIARY

Uryankhai region,

was Supreme Soviet agreed to Bokhara and Khorezm have American, that's all,"

ro Another American part of the Province of Mon- the request and on golia. In 1911 the Mongols ber. 18, 1944, the Tuvinian of blatant Soviet imperialism objectivity during and after the L. and-American feeling speecher, but the impression declared their separation People's Republic became in miniature. from China. In the follow- part of the Soviet State, as ing year the Imperial Rus the "Tuvinian Autonomous sian Government concluded Oblast."

Yet Kremlin never wearies

1941 the Government

Tiit

*

I

cing answer.

Nssentials the fate of Tuva civilians. Colonel Astor said:

is hardly to be distinguished I've heard more about that that almost anyone else would. The mothers, the wives, the from that of · Bokhara and here than in Britain. There's

been preferable to hove

the daughters, the familles have Khorezm;

been Tuva has of the swallowed

little trouble between British.

hopes of Eisenhower getting by Russia, while

hot-heads, both British and If this is true, then something their boys back home, of

pull- unfortunate has happened to ing of some sort of miracle. Octo. been swallowed by other

reporter British All three are victims asked about the alleged inck of and manners.

fact, British diplomacy Mr. Eisenhower made no pubiles.

St promists

his campaign American election-the apparent

Britain? Are Ameri- ́ ́has

that he is grown

off to British prejudice for Adlai sweeping Brit

1 Korea to clean up the mess in cans dis

disliked in England? propaganda

Stevenson. of condemning

have been asking British visitors the dazzling Elsenhower fathion. The colonel said he thought here, from high Government If he returns only with a report- colonisation by Western "land the British newspapers, certain officials to commercial travel and without a coup there will grobbers." That, of course, a treaty with-Outer Mon-

Today, deprived of every the automatic Party line. More ly The Times, had been objec- lers, but have not had a convin- be millions of disappointed golia, promising to lend

In Live...

Americans vestige of autonomy and algnificant is the fact that "assistance in robbed of its whole political ussa accopted an

of the Then we all dropped the sub- Mongolia

in entertainment Thanks Ike's Cabinet Allladject.. But there was dissatisfac

giving Week

celebrated order to preserve her pre- atatus,, it is merely an Powers' declaration against any

ilon among the American Press

by the opening of "Hans Christ- sent autonomy." Tannu oblast (or region) within agrandirement, territorial or representatives,

there. Is THE high Government officials fan. Andersen, starring Danny Tuva became inaccessibla

among the American public.

wince and hastily change the Kaye and produced by Samuel For several days now we have subject; the travelling salesmen Goldwyn; delightful, fairy to the Chinese Army and that sprawling land-mass other."

Inown as the Russian Soviet Yet the facts speak for them- been hearing about "the Bevan talk vaguely of "too much tole. Chinese administration as Federative Socialist Re: selves. In Europe alone, since Influence, the cartload of brick, American money, boasting, and a result of this separation,

annexed the criticism of Eisenhower" in success with the girls!! public.

1930, the USSR hoa and the pace

* of Russian

467,000 squard kilomètres Britain and France.

Curiously the reports of and splits (179,049 square miles)

Anglo-American penetration,.,which had be

I Goldwyn has been quoted as territory and, more than 21,000,-

suspicions seem to be disturbing gun in the 1860's, when her

,000 people.

almost everyone here except the saying such harsh things about merchants first went to

Americans most involved. There Charles Chaplin. The pack Zero Tuva, quickoned.

Soviet · ́rapaelly; * hos laid ZE have even read in some is no worry, no resentment at are still marling at Chaplin I has in fact, met the same

WE Poland, hands upon Eastern

Eisenhower's here ofa President' - "eleet! newspapers

A rather forged conlody, ca two other former Late A suggestion that Russin

eadquarter in New York's "The Seven Year Itch,*** Karella, East "mounting 'Hats America' cam- headquarters in Bertarabia, "Soviet People's Republics"

in. Britain. Anti- bustling Commodore Hotel Ing Tom Ewell st, successful should then annex Tannu Bokhara and Khorean, previous Frumia, Ruthenia, Lithuania, paign

"in" have been

and about the With Broadway audiences that Tuva, made by the Russian known

and Latvia-to my American sentiment is declared Emirate Estonia Charge d'Affaires in Pe- Bokhore and the Khanate noibing of the Communist to be growing up and down the headquarters quite a bit during. It looks

satellite states of United Kingdom and in France the past day or two and the Vic years. of Khive. Both the People's domitatod

Title has been offered a king, was submitted to Republica lika Tannu Tuva Central and Eastern Europe.

tory, Aust #tul

Bea Lillie his glowing there. too Bevan and his views are. There is even a slee in one fat Bollywood contract as a ro Nicholas II by his Foreign were formerly outside the Minister, ** Bazónov, who soviet

room:save In the Far East and in the getting a considerable amount room: "We ain't mad at now suit of her triumph with the „Evening with Bea added that such an annexa- loket, with the Russian Soviet Middle East, the same expan of publicity, and Mr Woddrow body.

Maker for tion would be neither, justi- Federative, Socialist Republie by sionist policy prevails. No Wyatt, the Socialist member of

treaties of alliance. Within their tonallat movements, are cor- Parlament who recently toured the Carrancadaço, tart Mr Eisen. Half a dozen Ajeé Gulness flable hor opportune, me, borders and in the neighbour, stantly exploited, in order to the United States, has oven hower has chibien the very best fins are now running in New Czar did not agree with in Turkestani Soviet Socialist intensify the tensions of the cold been getting space for his mert for the key Jobs, Certainly York and Elfe magazine Char

Senator Robert Turk, whja'some crowned him "Albɑ the, Cirent." his Minister. """*1, on the Regiallo,

the lived.

great war, and to push forward the opinion.

2

THE MOSLEMS

2.3.

Union,

the

were

Not ignored

Comedy

T is unfortunate. -that-- Mr