We do not go beyond the mark in saying this,
and of course do not make any invidious comparisons with the French. The French had a great conscript army at the beginning of the war when we had very little indeed to put beside it except the noble " Con- tcmptibles." The French, in our judgment, are the most truly martial nation in the world ; but it was inevitable under the con- ditions that the French blow in the war should be spent earlier than ours. All this has been most graciously and generously admitted by Marshal Foch, who informed Sir Douglas Haig that "the decisive blows" were delivered by the British Army. It was the genius of Marshal Foch which enabled these deoisive blows to be struck at the right place and at the very right moment. But it was Sir Douglas Haig, and no other man, who trained and nerved the arm which struck the blows. Is not this to be recognized in the most public and official manner ? It is not good for a nation that ite great men should pass without great honour. We hope the Government will see what is due to Sir Douglas Haig, but if we are wrong it will still be within the power of the public themselves to show in no uncertain way the esteem in which they hold him.
