Show G c c. c 4 For Him the W War r Goes On I il JC EVERY VERY during American the World soldier war remembers who served sewed the overseas caustic observation of at many an Engli Englishman hman Oh iu yes u Yan Yanks have come over to get the glory at after ter f cv V B have won the war from the Boche that that or orr r words to the same general effect 11 v a t Lloyd George Britain's then premier felt this this way too For or a long time he has been writ writ- log ling it into his memoirs with the passing pass pass- ing ing of time undoubtedly do not feel that 3 way jabout bout about it any more British generals and other J students of 01 war certainly do not though they 1 deplore depIore the long delay in getting American troops into the theater of action and prolongIng prolonging prolong- prolong ing the struggle I t r But Lloyd George hasn't changed his mind 1 By his stubborn refusal to accept facts t by by his uncovered countrymen who know far more than the can ever know about strategy and grand tactics tactics he must have become in the minds of Americans Americana an amusing eccentric centric nothing more irTha aging ging former premier is still busy with his interminable memoirs In his most recent volume he takes a poke at General Pershing Lloyd Georges George's complaint is the same i old one That Pershing was as stubborn as a Missouri mule about the idea of keeping American Ameri Amen can troops under American command and that because of this fact it took the United States altogether too long to make its presence felt on the firing line ine The Lloyd George idea had the be beauty ty of simplicity It was to feed American troops into the British army by companies and battalions There would be no American army as s such instead there would be a vast number of separate separate sep sep- separate sep sep- arate units brigaded into the war-born war British divisions As fast as our boys go got to France they could be put to work The best mark on Pershing's record is the fact that he said noto no noto noto to this little scheme and said it often The British high command had spent two years butting its head into a stone wall At the very moment when it was asking Pershing to turn his American boys over to its tender mercies mercies mer mer- cies it was wasting lives in the mud- mud mired offensive offensive-a a strategic gem for which British historians are still criticizing the high command In the bitterest terms Lloyd George himself did not quite trust the British high command He held British troops in England in such numbers that Earl Haigs Haig's partisans partisans partisans par par- blame him for the German through break of March 1918 held them there because he was sick of seeing the flower of the British army wasted in vain uninspired attacks that were foredoomed to failure And yet Lloyd George now can criticize Pershing for feeling precisely the same way |