Show MARSHAL HAIGS HAIG'S S 'S WAR IDEAS TOLD Says British Army Would Have Won ii y Without America LONDON June 9 Dy By By The As As- Associated Associated Press IreI The Tho belief that thai the thc British armies would eventual eventual- eventually ly have ha Rained gained the victory In the World orld war even esen e en If IC the States had ha 1 not Intervened Is held by Field Marshal Earl Karl Hale Hal com corn commander mander In chief of ot the British ex ex- forces forc s In Trance France and from 1915 to 1919 Addressing the British Empire Umpire Service league last night he pro pro- protested protested protested tested against what He hc described as aa the national tendency to belittle the tho part Great Britain played In winning the war He lie referred gratefully to the share of at the al allies al- al allies allies lies but contended that although without American Intervention thu tho th result might have been delayed It would have been the same Ho lie maintained that for Cor the last 18 IS months of oC the war the armies of ot the British empire carried on their shoulders the main burden of ot the struggle and carried It to victory The national n tendency to belittle tic the our own achievements fostered and encouraged by political con con- considerations considerations considerations he said salol has led uto us u uto to ascribe our victory to the for for- fortunate for I destiny of oC our country to tc the military genius of ot the allies to the mistakes of or our enemies to the this Inter of or America to any any- anything anything thing thin rather than the true cause namely the Inherent fighting qualities Hie of ot the British armies and the endurance loyalty and discipline of or British peoples In all quarters quarter of or the world If It America had no not come In we might not perhaps have forced the tho enemy to surrender er In 1918 for Cor without American servos reserves r In existence It would have been unwise to risk throwing the whole force Corce of oC the British army Into the tremendous series erles of oC bat bat- battles battles battIes tIes which brought the war var to a sudden end according to many man politicians politician an unexpected end bu but buwe buwe we should have won In the end all al althe the same As Aa for the mistakes of ot Germany he said she made only ani two serious errors first when she began the thi war under conditions which brought In the British empire and second when she lost the war |