MR. CHURCHILL AND SIR FREDERICK MAURICE.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I say in reply to Mr. Boothby's letter, which appears in your issue of November 10th, that in my review of Mr.
Churchill's second volume I did not attempt to discuss the question of the strategy of the Dardanelles campaign ? I said that the tone of the volume was mean, and further considera- tion has not caused me to alter that opinion. I hold it to be mean in the ex-First Lord of the Admiralty and ex-Secretary of State for War to attack serving sailors such as Admiral de Robeck, and serving soldiers such as General Monro. The careers of either of these distinguished public servants might be prejudiced in the not impossible event of Mr. Churchill again becoming a Minister of the Crown, but they are debarred by the King's Regulations from making any reply. The attacks are not made the more generous by the fact that they are based on statements which are often incorrect. May I add that I opened Mr. Churchill's second volume very strongly prejudiced in its favour, as is shown by the fact that I wrote as warmly eulogistic a review of the first volume as I am capable of writing? I was much disappointed.-1 am,
Sir, &c., F. MAIIIIICE. 44 Kensington Park Gardens, W. 11.
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