On Thursday week Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial
General Staff, and now a Field-Marshal, was entertained at dinner at the House of Commons, when the Prime Minister made a speech in his honour. Mr. Lloyd George said that Sir Henry Wilson had rendered three very definite services to the country. The first was in connexion with the despatch of the Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the war. " No one knew that it waa done until it had been done, and no one thought it had been done by him. It was the most perfect piece of machinery I have seen at work in the course of the war." The second great service was Sir Henry Wilson's work in smoothing difficulties between the Allies. The third great service was the part he took in co-ordinating the strategy of the Allies and " getting something like unity of command."
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