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The choice of Mr. J. R. M. Butler as " chief military historian" will give much satisfaction to all who recognise how well adapted Mr. Butler is for so important and responsible an office. A Fellow and former Senior Tutor of Trinity, Cambridge, he is a historian by profession, but served in the Army in two wars and went
through the Paris Peace conference as assistant to Lord Cecil and
with Mr. Philip Noel-Baker as colleague ; the association of butler and baker, as in the Book of Genesis, did not go unnoticed. It is satisfactory that the war histories are to take the form of a broad general survey, not detailed accounts of the achievements of the three separate services. There can be a world of difference between
this kind of thing done indifferently and done well.
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