The report of the Commission would show that Lord Cardwell’s system of short service had entirely broken down, and that a change must be made at any rate as regarded the non-commissioned officers.
Morley critiques the failures of a military service system, emphasizing the need for reform.
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What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
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