“That night the Angel of the Lord went forth ... in the morning behold they were all dead corpses!” A Cabinet Minister, in an article (after the Armistice) in a newspaper, stated that the Allies were at their last gasp when the Armistice occurred as it did as a Miracle! for Marshal Foch had been foiled on the strategic flank by the inability of the American Army to advance and the unavoidable consequences of want of experience in a new Army (_immense but inexperienced--they were slaughtered in hecatombs and died like flies!_) and so the American advance on the Verdun flank was held up, and Haig therefore had to batter away instead (and well he did it!). And though the British Army entered Mons, yet the German Army was efficient, was undemoralised, and had immense lines of resistance in its rear before reaching the Rhine! There was no Waterloo, no Sedan, no Trafalgar (though there could have been one on October 21st, 1918, for the German Naval Mutiny was known! Sir E. Geddes said so in a Mansion House Speech on November 9th, 1918). There was no Napoleon--no Nelson! but “The Angel of the Lord went forth....” _Lord Fisher to a Friend._ _March 27th, 1918._ MY DEAR BLANK, It has been a most disastrous war for one simple reason--that our Navy, with a sea supremacy quite unexampled in the history of the world (we are five times stronger than the enemy) has been relegated into being a “Subsidiary Service!”... What _crashes_ we have had Tirpitz--Sunk. Joffre--Stranded. Kitchener--Drowned. Lord French-- } Lord Jellicoe-- } Made Viscounts. Lord Devonport-- } Fisher--Marooned. Sir W. Robertson--The “Eastern Command” in Timbuctoo. Bethmann-Hollweg--} Asquith-- } Torpedoed. Heaven bless you! I am here walking 10 miles a day! and eating my heart out! And a host of minor prophets promoted. (We don’t shoot now! we promote!) Yours, etc., (Signed) FISHER. 27/3/18. _To Lord Fisher from an Admirer._ _21st November, 1918._ DEAR LORD FISHER, We are just back after taking part in the most wonderful episode of the war, and my heart is very full, and I feel that the extraordinary surrender of the Flower of the German Fleet is so much due to your marvellous work and insight--in giving England the Fleet she has--that I must write you!