This attitude was so foolish as to amount to criminality,
if you will, but it was by no means specially the attitude of Lord Haldane. If the policy was insensate, as we always declared it to be, the blame must rest upon the Administration as a whole, and not upon one member. No good will ever come from an act of personal injustice, and it is an act of personal injustice to make Lord Haldane a scapegoat. Apart from the question of injustice, it must never be forgotten that Lord Haldane on the whole immensely increased the effieienoy of the British Army. It is true that he neglected to do certain things which he ought to have done, and did some things which he ought not to have done—as, for example, reducing the Regular infantry and the Regular artillery, though, of course, he increased the artillery as a whole by his very large additions of Territorial batteries. His administration at the War Office marked a real advance.
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