Lord Alfred Milner
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| (From his "Memorandum to the Cabinet", submitted March 27, 1918 to the British War Cabinet, & published in the magazine "The New Statesman" on April 23, 1921):<ref>''The New Statesman'', Special Supplement, April 23, 1921, pgs. i thru iv</ref><ref>(reprinted here): Clemenceau, Georges, "Grandeur and Misery of Victory", [https://archive.org/details/grandeurmiseryof0000clem/page/406/mode/2up ''pgs. 407-423'']</ref> | (From his "Memorandum to the Cabinet", submitted March 27, 1918 to the British War Cabinet, & published in the magazine "The New Statesman" on April 23, 1921):<ref>''The New Statesman'', Special Supplement, April 23, 1921, pgs. i thru iv</ref><ref>(reprinted here): Clemenceau, Georges, "Grandeur and Misery of Victory", [https://archive.org/details/grandeurmiseryof0000clem/page/406/mode/2up ''pgs. 407-423'']</ref> |
| "I "*****" back to Versailles at 9 o'clock and was very happy to find that Wilson had just arrived from Abbeville." "I had some conversation with Wilson, who reported what had passed between him and Haig." The rest of the paragraph was about being in agreement to unite the Western Front. (pages ii & iii) | "I "*****" back to Versailles at 9 o'clock and was very happy to find that (General, commander of the British Army) Wilson had just arrived from Abbeville." "I had some conversation with Wilson, who reported what had passed between him and Haig." The rest of the paragraph was about being in agreement to unite the Western Front. (pages ii & iii) |
| "Some conversation" meant "a great conversation" per Louis Loucheur, and this seems likely.<ref>"L'Illustrated Magazine", March 24, 1928, pg. 274 (column 2, middle par.)</ref> What had passed between him and Haig was a retreat order for the BEF to evacuate its position on the Western Front and to withdraw 'in the direction of the Channel Ports'.<ref>Lloyd George, Vol. V, [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsofdavi00lloy_3/page/386/mode/2up?q=Doullens ''pgs. 377-378'']</ref><ref>Weygand, pgs. 476-477</ref> This conversation took place on March 25th, at about 9PM, on the eve of the Doullens Conference. | "Some conversation" meant "a great conversation" per Louis Loucheur, and this seems likely.<ref>"L'Illustrated Magazine", March 24, 1928, pg. 274 (column 2, middle par.)</ref> What had passed between him and Haig was a retreat order for the BEF to evacuate its position on the Western Front and to withdraw 'in the direction of the Channel Ports'.<ref>Lloyd George, Vol. V, [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsofdavi00lloy_3/page/386/mode/2up?q=Doullens ''pgs. 377-378'']</ref><ref>Weygand, pgs. 476-477</ref> This conversation took place on March 25th, at about 9PM, on the eve of the Doullens Conference. |
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