Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-20
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1917.
Lloyd George Getting Into Action

8 Premier Lloyd Georges declaration in favor OF
IN Allied War Council which shall be the firm guild
ing hand for all Allied strategy is timely indeed :
The plan should have been carried out long ago.
In fact most readers of the European press and OF
#lespatches from London have assumed that such a
MAR council was in active operation But apparent
1y the various confabs in London, Paris and Rome
have been mere exchanges of opinion and not def
mite settlement of policies.
81 Until the Allies plan their battles together ana
pool their military resources they will forced to see
such spectacles as the destruction of Serbia, the
byerrunning Of Rumania, the breakdown of Russia
and the costly defeats of Italy.
Germany. taking leaf from Napoeons general
ship, has followed the plan of keeping just enough
nen on her farhung lines to hold them reasonably
afe and deaching huge forces for sudden and terri
fc drives at picked points on the enemy front.
s This policy smashed the first Russian arm. at
The Masurian lakes: it drove down into Serbia; it
conquered Poland; it put Rumania out of the war
N two short months and now it is thrusting into
The eyes if not the heart of Italy.
1t is true that. the Allies have had to- hold i'm
nenseIy longer fronts than the TeutOns true that
he Germans working on interior lines; true
hat Germany's system of strategic railways en-
lbes her to move huge bodies of troops more rapid
Y than her opponents; true that Germany, Austria
and Bulgaria began the war with preponderance
pf supplies-yet the Allies have begun to turn the
Scales on men and munitions, and many critics
quite as competent as the Allied leaders declare
hat the Entente countries must adopt Napoleonic
Strategy and tactics too; and concentrate immense
v on one chosen point at time, there delivering
.l blow that cannot be withstOod.
Premier Asquith's objections to Lloyd Georges
Paris speech are characteristic. The Asquith po-
3 icy was "wait and see' so far politicomilitary
activities were concerned. Nor is it true, what
over Asquith says that the responsibilities of the
leaders, are ultimately to their people. The res
possibilities of the leaders to the alliance strain
ne its resources burdening its people, spending the
J blood of its soldiers to defeat an unholy enemy
alliance. The responsibilities of the leaders to
humanity. This war has gone far beyond any in
dividual nation. Otherwise the United States
would not have entered it. The war is "a war be-
ween vicious system of arrogant autoefacy and a
system of free democracy = go
Lloyd George is right as he usually is. 1t will
strike most Americans with amazement to learn
IF his Paris speech is to be taken in it's full sign
fcance how little cooperation in general strategy
here has been among the Allies. Perhaps to this
has been due some of what appeared blunders OF
British generalship in the field. ~.-.
The British premier has apparently accomplished
his purpose of waking up the Entente cabinets and
high commands, AS often happens when people
grow apathetc. they must be stung into action
They must be angered before they wake up and get
together. Lloyd George knows how to do it, and
he will find plenty of sentiment in America to back
his views