The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-26
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said, therefore that the British army, was again p playing ing a D% part which i had
a Waterloo multiplied a hundredold in time and space pa' + Finally aEI added that the
anxiety 50 long as Biuecher was marching to the battlefield 1I ID" W "'O ""' "
re,r me T coSil Gu ap2eeT % UNI" SH ini b, ,,N was to support Ge en1s f05h ana at to , e%
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that ~Sn !" il u" %a S RSosm IN Amc En- ne ,S ssaf : y 9GT n"' ~. sense P|n.S So it. it can a%.. about sd
had had been The s,a.; q FL a eo1,is,l RI ! y GF's. ; I I wa; s.,oSsd IA,
my letter to the British newspapers was the outcome Of an intrigue against unity
=, ,,bJ had mot, m@ fact been St4 di, s.! .s. i%s the British var office. for j, had been
up a important appointment in France, and the only reasonl had not done so
t @1aS si ia Fn mse f nna because some "i dS'y yb4 r seo Of s free ,b m, S sp9s:'o or T ,s S "a: De.
ment OF the great German offensive Tn. letter which sent to the papers. was
made by the British goyefnmegt for keeping our force, in France up to strength.
did not do so because e' the British ii hs sa 1Tamns S SeSeIs 10 D PT te 6a, TO nv f@ cae N
was placed on retired pay because had committed a breach Of mAaaTy di.ip-
l aa%@ %s. 1f so ol fst t had felt ! " n any S syy ' ssg 1'k s but but I 5,& hoped to '''''5" some
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any way lndepegdca, ltthenb became apparent that there were difficulties in the way
administrator aaopT of his U own N mn gS s Seri t%H S' :1 tSe amy y. Tn :" the 'o opetat ms
ct a large allied force From then o it became a question OF loyal and whole
S, long as the allies IN the west had the initiative, could choose their own
msnt worked Or the whole fairly well, though there were w,atms,se, in the c o
wercn not however such as to override the political da6euide, which, which stood G% in tn,
Way. OF m unity yo OF Command T5Imd. a AT sS. VIII appreciate ?. that n democratic country
British troops under the orders Of an allied general who could not be made re
til. y.s !, h S..,ys tH% 5ss autumn ut III S Of 1o7 , ,f German maj forces fore , began to gather in
the question, that a generalSSno in some form or other was indispensable and
mat this generaLssrmo could not be the Commanded in CHIEF of ope Of the armies
already on the front but must he independent of and superior Ito all the com
manders in the field For it was clear that the enemy would threaten attack
upon more than one part Of the front and upon more than one army. and that il
would be the duty of each commander in chief flo look especially to the interests
of his own forces and to defend tenaciousy his own front, when it might be that
ground either to allow OF the protection OF some more vital pomt, Ito release forces
for a commemorative.
1t was because they held these views that British soldiers welcomed the ap-
pointment of Foch. the immense difficulties and responsibilities, of whose task no
one appreciates more fully than they do. Ii is not from the professional British
officers who have studied war that opposition will come to practical and efec-
tive unity OF command Their n regret IS that III. attempt .o set u impractical
and ineffective machinery made it necessary TO appoint Foch in the stress Of
battle instead of in the quiet days of Yeparsion-From "The British Army and
Unity of Command by Major General Sir Frederick +. Maurice, in the Ameri-
can Review of Reviews for August 1918 O.