ABSTRACT
At the end of March the author received a personal invitation to visit GHQ from Robertson, who was anxious that someone in immediate touch with the War Council, who could, speak their language, should get a first-hand impression of the conditions at the front. He felt that Churchill, in view of his intimate and long-standing friendship with French, would naturally warn him if he had reliable information of a design to alter his status. Next day he returned to London, where he lunched with Asquith and reported all that I had seen, especially the universal demand for more shells. Everyone at GHQ was bitterly opposed to the Dardanelles attack, but in dug-outs in the front line I found maps of the Dardanelles, cut from the weekly illustrated papers. Consequently he was ignorant of the contents of the secret treaty with Italy which was to cause me embarrassment later, both during the war and at the Paris Peace Conference.
