We should like to say here that nothing has been
more notable, and nothing more creditable to Mr. Asquith's states- manship and power to grasp the essentials of a question, than the way in which he has from the beginning stuck doggedly to the determination to get men, and plenty of them, and not to be misled by any sophistical pleas, military or civilian, that it is no good to obtain men before you are ready to train them and equip them, and so on and so on. Whatever else happens, we must have the men. With this in view, all the talk about being "overwhelmed by the rush of numbers " is but sounding brass. And not only must we have the men, but we must get them as soon as possible, and also when they will come, even if that is not always "the convenient moment." Let us make no mistake. It will be a very difficult job indeed to get the last five hundred thousand. Fortunately, however, we are certain that we can rely upon Mr. Asquith to keep his eye upon the object, and not to relax for a single moment the efforts at recruiting.
