Dominic Sandbrook
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Appearances Over Time
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He reads out the telegrams reporting what's gone on.
And he says, it's actually going fine.
Yeah, we've taken a few losses.
He doesn't mention the French ship and its men at all.
He says, we've lost less than 30 British lives and two or three worthless ships.
So the French, he just forgets about them.
He doesn't count them.
And then he says, well, now that it's going so well, is this perhaps the moment to discuss partitioning the Ottoman Empire?
And Admiral Fisher says, you are mad.
Quote, we told you to use troops as well, but you wouldn't listen.
And Churchill himself wrote after the war,
For the first time since the war began, high words were used around the octagonal table.
In other words, people are now saying to him, you have totally led us.
Yeah.
You've led us into an absolute mess.
This is a shambles.
Lots of people have died.
What are you talking about partitioning Turkey?
We're nowhere remotely near to conquering Turkey.
Are you mad?