[50] Majority Report, pars. 89–93; Mr. Roch’s Minute, pars. 28, 29.
[51] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, par. 92.
[52] Speech in the House of Commons, March 20, 1917.
[53] Mr. Archibald Hurd (“The Dardanelles Report,” Fortnightly Review, April 1917, pp. 587, 591) considers that a military force “was apparently a part of the original scheme.” But the whole evidence of the Report and of Mr. Churchill’s speech of March 20, 1917, appears to be against him.
[54] Speech in House of Commons, March 20, 1917 (Hansard, 1789). Cf. Majority Report, par. 94, and Mr. Roch’s Minute, pars. 29, 32.
[55] Majority Report, par. 95.
[56] Majority Report, par. 96; Mr. Roch’s Minute, pars. 32, 33.
[57] Mr. Asquith in the House of Commons, March 20, 1917 (Hansard, 1752).
[58] Majority Report, pars. 100–103; Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 38.