Can any one deny that Lord French is competent to
express ex opinion as to the value of Lord Haldane's services ? Will any one dare after these words to pursue Lord Haldane with the unjust attacks to which he has been exposed ? The malignancy, as well as the folly and ignorance, of the accusations brought against Lord Haldane are a public disgrace. Lord Haldane made mistakes ix his political diagnosis, as did his colleagues, but to describe him as a pro-German is preposterous folly. In many ways he was and is the strongest anti-German in the country It was not he who hesitated in August, 1914, as to the need of standing by France and Russia. Yet some of the men who thought then that "there need be an war" are regarded as flaming patriots and he is suspected as s. friend of Germany. It is a gross injustice.
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