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Post-war extravagance -- The Office of Works lavish all through
-- The Treasury -- Its unpopularity in the spending departments
-- The Finance Branch of the War Office -- Suggestions -- The
change with regard to saluting -- Red tabs and red cap-bands -- A
Staff dandy in the West -- The age of general-officers --
Position of the General Staff in the War Office -- The project of
a Defence Ministry -- No excuse for it except with regard to the
air services, and that not a sufficient excuse -- Confusion
between the question of a Defence Ministry and that of the
Imperial General Staff -- The time which must elapse before newly
constituted units can be fully depended upon, one of the most
important lessons for the public to realize -- This proved to be
the case in almost every theatre and in the military forces of
almost every belligerent -- Misapprehensions about South Africa
-- Improvised units could not have done what the "Old
Contemptibles" did -- Conclusion.