It is announced that Sir Douglas Haig is to land
at Dover on December 20th. We have read something in the newspapers about preparations at Dover to receive him, but what about preparations elsewhere ? A most unfortunate impression has been made upon the majority of the nation by the very scant praise which the Government have given to Sir Douglas Haig. There is still time to remove this impression. We call to mind various pictures—not very good pictures, most of them—of British Generals who had distinguished themselves in foreign campaigns being received on their return to England by exalted personages. What is to happen in the case of Sir Douglas Haig, who has won the greatest victory in by far the greatest of wars ? If the British public do not already appreciate the truth about Sir Douglas Haig, they will learn to do so when more of the history of the war is written. Much the greater part of the fighting in the culminating stages of the war was done by the British Army, and that Army WEE probably the most highly finished fighting instrument that has ever been seen on a battlefield.
