And I believe if that were done, and if we had a clear separation between our Regular Army as such, and that were kept small, compact, but efficient, with a comparatively large staff available for the training of the auxiliary force at home—if that had been done we should have come through the Last War Crisis in South Africa much better than we did.

The Crisis in the Last War was a question of weeks.

Then, with regard to buildings, I am reminded of a famous passage in the PrimeMinister's book on the great Crisis of the Last War, where he described, in language all his own, what had happened during the last war.

to send those forces, just as, in a Crisis in the Last War, we could not send naval forces to help Australia.