If they find themselves in conflict with their expert advisers _they should sack the advisers or themselves resign_. An official, whether a Sea Lord or a junior clerk--having been asked a question by his immediate chief and given his answer and the chief acts contrary to advice--should not be subjected to reprimand for not stating to the board of directors that he disagrees with his chief or that he has given a reluctant consent. _If there is blame it rests with the Minister and not with his subordinates._ “_I dissent in the strongest terms,” says Mr. Fisher in his Minority Report, “from any suggestion that the Departmental Adviser of a Minister in his company at a Council meeting should express any views at all other than to the Minister and through him unless specifically invited to do so._” Sir Thomas Mackenzie expresses exactly the same view. Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons on November 2, 1915, said:-- “It is the duty of the Government--of any Government--to rely very largely upon the advice of its military and naval counsellors; but in the long run, a Government which is worthy of the name, which is adequate in the discharge of the trust which the nation reposes in it, must bring all these things into some kind of proportion one to the other, and sometimes it is not only expedient, but necessary, to run risks and to encounter dangers which pure naval or military policy would warn you against.” The Government and the War Council knew my opinion--as I told the Dardanelles Commission, it was known to all. It was known even to the charwomen at the Admiralty. It was my duty to acquiesce cheerfully and do my best, but when the moment came that there was jeopardy to the Nation I resigned. Such is the stupidity of the General Public--and such was the stupidity of Lord Cromer--that it was not realized there would be an end of Parliamentary Government and of the People’s will, therefore, being followed, if experts were able to override a Government Policy. Sea Lords are the servants of the Government. Having given their advice, then it’s their duty to carry out the commands of the political party in power until the moment comes when they feel they can no longer support a policy which they are convinced is disastrous. Here follows a summary for the Chairman of the Dardanelles Commission of my evidence (handed to Lord Cromer, but not circulated by him or printed in the Report of the Commission):-- “Mr. Churchill and I worked in absolute accord at the Admiralty until it came to the question of the Dardanelles. “I was absolutely unable to give the Dardanelles proposal any welcome, for there was the Nelsonic dictum that ‘any sailor who attacked a fort was a fool.’