Arizona republican., 1917-11-20

ment We want victory and We will ger it. But I do not want the whole burden of it to fall on Britain and I want. therefore. an fnter-allied ccun cil that will order the whole field O. battle that the whole resouprces Of the allies shall be thrown into the con- :lict in order to bring pressure to bear upon the enemy. Mir. Asqulth has challenged my history. That will be decided one day. and I am not afraid of it.
 There has not been a single. bat talion or gun moved this year except on the advice of the general staff. There has not been a single attack or der on any part of the battlefield eX- cept upon the advice of the general staff. l have only twice this year acted against the advice of the soldiers. The first time was with regard to the big i gun program; they thought was man l ufacturing too many and they would be una ble to man them There is nor q soldier today who would not say I was right
 The second case was when I pressed upon the soldiers the appointment Of a civilian to re-orga nize the railways behind the lines. There is not g. sol dier today who would not say that he was grateful to me for pressing my advice
 | The premier declared that policy and strategy were inevtricably inter woven, adding:
 Let them work together. The men who are trying to separate them, to divide them and foster disunion are 1 traitors to their country. I care not whether it is done from personal rancor or political envy; it is equally l reasonable. We look forward to CO., peration between not merely civilians and soldiers but between allies and allies.
 Are we to tolerate men .n this country who from purely political or personal reasons disseminate distrust and jealousy of France in the breasts of Englishmen? I say we ought to stop it here and now. What about F'rance-poor France trampled upon, with so many of her sons lost te her forever, her richest provinces torn from her? France wants nothing eX- cept emancipation from the deadly meance that has threatened her for fifty years. l do hope whatever hap pens at any rate that they will keep their hands and tongues and pens from trying to foster suspicion and jealousy and distrust between France 1 and ourselves.
 If we act together, I have no fear of what will happen. l see anxieties on the horizon and l Nlve never con cealed them. It is better to tell the people what is going 5n. But Issee no anxieties that modify my convic- tion that there are only two things that could defeat us. There was the submarine menace. If we had wrenched from IFS the freedom of the seas, then indeed. our hopes would
 shattered. but now of the submarine I have no fear. We are on its track, and I am glad to tell the house that on Saturday we destroyed five of them-five of these pests of tho sea.
 What is the other? Lack of unity the only thing.
 I support every scheme that will help on the road to victory and that | will bring peace and healing te a
 world that is bleeding"
 Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux fol-
 lowed the premier. He maintained
 that the scheme the premier had ex-
 plained was very different than that
 outlined in his Paris speech. Com mander Wedgwood characterized the premiers speech as largely camou- flage and a lamentable descent from
 his Paris utterance. The council, he said, ought to possess executive powers. If anybody had come to see the premier's funeral he had
 found a very wakeful corpse.
 Sir Edward Carson confirmed ths
 full approval and confidence of the cabinet in the document the premier
 took to Rapailo and declared that
 the agreement would be rigidly ad-
 hered to as one of the most sacred documents formulated by the allies ' during the war