David Lloyd George access to the Cabinet so as to bypass Kitchener. However, he did succeed in securing the appointment of Sir Eric Geddes to take charge of military railways behind British lines in France, with the honorary rank of major-general. Lloyd George told a journalist, Roy W. Howard, in late September that "the fight must be to a finish – to a knockout", a rejection of President Wilson's offer to mediate. Lloyd George was increasingly frustrated at the limited gains of the Somme Offensive, criticising General Haig to Ferdinand Foch on a visit to the Western Front in September (British casualty ratios
This Misery of Boots Sidney Webb: "Do not underrate Wells. What you said the other day about his article in the "Independent Review" being a mere piece of journalism suggested to me that you did not appreciate the effect his writing produces on the imagination of the movement." "This Misery of Boots" is often described as "brilliant" and has often been reprinted. This Misery of Boots This Misery of Boots is a 1907 political tract by H. G. Wells advocating socialism. Published by the Fabian Society, "This Misery of Boots" is the expansion of a 1905 essay with the same name. Its five chapters