Mr. Lloyd George professed to stand for unification, and he
tried to bring it about through the Versailles Conference, about which to-day we hear very little. As regards ;the appointment of a Generalissimo, he was no doubt discouraged by the experience of the French and British Armies when General Nivelle was in effect Generalissimo and suffered a reverse in the spring of 1917. At that. time Sir Douglas Haig's plan of campaign was postponed in order that the British Army might be put under the orders of General Nivelle. At all events, on November 17th of last year, little more than four months before General Foch became Generalissimo, Air. Lloyd George declared in the Howie of Commons that in his opinion the appointment of a Generalissimo would cause friction all round, and that system would not work. Since then Mr. Lloyd George has said that Marshal Foch is not strictly a Generalissimo, and that the title is misleading.
