General Sir Ian Hamilton, lectur~ ing at Hull in aid of the' British Legion, told his story of the Dardanelles landing, and, incident ally, expressed some frank opinions of Some: of the men who directed British operations during the Great By the winter of 1914-15," said First Sea Lord was That is a name to conjure up brick-bats or bouquets according to fancy. But we need not here trouble ourselves with his goodness or badness. Genius is an X-ray faculty. which enables a mortal to see what is on the other side of the mountaina.
"Whether, having seen, he uses his knowledge ill or well is another matter, Mr. Churchill saw. After all, he is an artist—a He can see; he saw the Dardanelles, and 0 secing he resolved to use the Long-distance boots given us by our Fleet to get round the enemy's tern flank, 'Next in power to this young genius sat an old man of the 5 Lord Fisher, brilliant as he was, sensible as' he could be, was more narrow than Winston Church-in that he was essentially a one clement man, He never wasted a thought on anything so dry as the land. He reek to mask Borkum, force an entrance to the Baltic, and land Russian and British armies within 70 miles of Berlin.
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