His enemies are never tired of shouting the two names of Antwerp and Gallipoli.

They are convenient terms of abuse: I suppose they would have destroyed most politicians; certainly they are more deadly than such a phrase as "spiritual home," for although the world may be ignorant of the fact, every honest, educated man must acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the thinkers of ancient Germany, while to be associated with operations which involve the suffering, the death, and the defeat of British troops is in every way more fatal to reputation.
But, in truth, both these strokes of military strategy were sound in conception.

I doubt indeed if the military historian of the future, with all the documents before him, will not chiefly condemn the Allies for their initial failure to make Antwerp a sea-fed menace to the back of the German Armies; while even in our own day no one doubts that if Lord Kitchener, in one of his obstinate moods, had not refused to send more divisions to Gallipoli we should have taken Constantinople.

The fault of those operations lay not in attempting them but in not adequately supporting them.
Mr.Churchill has had bad luck in these matters, but even here it is the lack of character which has served him most ill.

He never impressed Lord Kitchener as a man of power, although that sullen temperament grew in the end to feel an amused affection for him.