NATIONAL VOL. XCI PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR 8 JOHN STREET, ADELPHI, LONDON, W.C.2 [All rights reserved] 4 AVA Sen 277el' 31 Allen 1.95 BOOSEY, WILLIAM "The Gospel of Play "-A Reply 457 147 The Settler Settles Down Developments of E. R. A. JAMES, COLONEL LIONEL, C.B.E., A Journalistic Delivery 567 A Budget Speech in 1980 Glimpses of English Cathedrals- MCCULLAGH, CAPTAIN FRANCIS,M.C. The Mexican Murder Gang. 365 The Kitchener-Curzon Controversy RUSSELL, CAPTAIN WILMOT P. M., Monchy-le-Preux, 1917 M.C. SUMMERSCALES, JOHN TRIGGS, THE HON. W. H. (Mem- TURNBULL, R. E., M.C. New Zealand's Troubles in Samoa A French Family's Via Dolorosa 447 THE NATIONAL REVIEW No. 541. MARCH 1928 EPISODES OF THE MONTH LORD HAIG was so great in War and Peace, and held so high a place in the hearts of his countrymen, that it was a tremendous shock to the British people, as to the Lord Haig British Empire, to learn on Monday morning, January 30th, that he had died suddenly at midnight on Sunday of heart failure at the house of his brother-in-law in Prince's Gate. Besides being a cause of profound grief, it is no less a tragedy to the many tens of thousands of ex-Servicemen and their families, to whom since the Armistice the Field-Marshal had devoted himself unremittingly and unsparingly, and in such fashion as to go far to remove from the nation the common reproach of forgetting those to whom she owed her escape from catastrophe. We doubt whether there is any instance in history of a victorious General consecrating himself in the steady, determined, persistent, and insistent manner of the late Commander-inChief to the interests of those without whose valour, loyalty, and self-sacrifice the war could never have been won. was all the more entitled to settle down and enjoy life in his own way, after the appalling burden he had borne during those terrible years. As is common knowledge, his task was acutely aggravated by factors over which he had no control, and from which soldiers in the field are usually free. It had hitherto been an accepted condition of military success that the General should not only command the confidence of the troops whose lives are in his keeping, but must equally possess the confidence of the Government whose servant he is, and without whose moral support he has an impossible row to hoe. Against the formidable enemy in front of him, Sir Douglas could keep his end up unflinchingly, and with a 1 He |