No one las been able to show-that Sir •Doag,lae Haig
has done any harm to us or to our- Allies: On the contrary, his remarks greatly pleased. French public opinion. We believe that the long and short of - the whole matter isetleis' , that the interview madea us look at -our -very silent 'and reticent Scots Commander-in-Chief through French -spectacles. To see him thus Frenchifted -for the moment perturbed John Bull as much as he is perturbed if one of his sons comes back from France in a Paris hat with a curly brim. Is not a difference in the use of epithets at the bottom • of the whole fuss t Our readers' will remember the old story of the Frenchman : " Splendide I Magnifique /—what. you call 'pretty good ' ! " Everybody here expected Sir Douglas- Haig- to say that things were "pretty good." on the Western front. Suddenly to find him using-"hot-preseed." epithets took away the /ration's-breath.
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