It is the easiest way out of a situation every army, save our own, has failed to treat with intelligence.

Every army knows that there are men to-day acting, or anxious to act, as war correspondents who can be trusted absolutely, whose loyalty and discretion are above question, who no more would rob their army of a military secret than they would rob a till.

If the army does not know that, it is unintelligent.

That is the only crime I impute to any general staff--lack of intelligence.
When Captain Granville Fortescue, of the Hearst syndicate, told the French general that his word as a war correspondent was as good as that of any general in any army he was indiscreet, but he was merely stating a fact.

The answer of the French general was to put him in prison.