It is entertaining and instructive to compare some of the
statements made by Lord Beaverbrook in his book about the management of the War with statements made by the late Lord Oxford in his diary now appearing serially in the Daily Telegraph. Lord Beaverbrook's explana- tions of everything that happened fit in so neatly with the facts that it would not be easy to question them were they not undesignedly contradicted here and there by Lord Oxford. Lord Beaverbrook's particular vision of the War seemed to him to be complete, but Lord Oxford shows that in certain respects it was incom- plete. Take, for instance, that crucial episode, the formation of the Coalition. Lord Oxford says that he had been contemplating for some time the expansion of the Liberal Cabinet, as he felt that the War was everybody's war and that a party Government should not be solely responsible.
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