THE CONVOY SYSTEM
[To the Bailor of, the gricrATbR.] , SIR,—In the much too flattering article about *self which appears in your issue of July 6th, there are several statements which I should like to qualify, but there is one which I feel it my duty to correct. I was certainly not responsible for the introduction of the convoy system; though I was whole- heartedly in favour of it. I was, however, sufficiently in touch with what was happening to see who was. In my view the chief credit for the initiation, advocacy, and execution goes to Captain (now Rear-Admiral) R. Henderson, and in the organization of merchant shipping to conform-with the naval requirements of the system his chief collaborator was Mr. (now Sir) Norman Leslie.—I am, Sir, &c., . League of Nations,, Genera.
ARTHUR SALTER.
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