ABSTRACT
The advent of a new French Government was eminently favourable for some development in the Allied Supreme Command. Briand and Gallieni were known to be strong partisans of something of the kind. More prescient than most, Kitchener had urged some move in the direction as early as January 1915. Lloyd George was a strong advocate of closer relations with the French Government. The situation is a most difficult one for the Government. First, they sent Monro to the Dardanelles, as a sort of Pope, whose word was to be final. When he recommended evacuation they refused to accept his opinion and sent Kitchener, as a sort of super-Pope, who not only knows the East better than any living man, but has created the new armies and ought to know where best to use them, more especially as he has been practically in control of the war for a long time.
