NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE attack upon the Higher Command has faded away for want of support since we last wrote, and looks like being a complete failure. If the critics of the Higher Command applied their methods of military criticism to their own campaign, they could hardly fail to say that their staff work had been exceedingly bad. Though it is satisfactory that the attack has so far failed, it must not be supposed that the conspirators are incapable of trying to find a way round. The frontal assault, at all events, has been beaten off with loss, and this is a satisfactory first result. To a certain extent the members of the Government have rallied to the defence of the military leaders. But we cannot honestly say that there has been enough of a rally, though Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Derby, and Lord Curzon have used the honourable and indignant words which we should have expected of them. The great omission has been any word of praise or censure from the Prime Minister.
