Porter Resigns, page-167

that's unpalatably and unfortunately true


it's a rare thing to see cases like John Monash - and then - you see that there were serious attempts to have him removed -

a man who had visionary ideas and almost had the legs cut out from under him - - Bean and Murdoch - just pure scum IMO -

only saved by a Prime Minister actually twigging to the fact that some dubious unscrupulous bastards were trying to whiteant him and discredit him


I absolutely detest impediments to progress - these horrible little turds who stand in the way for all sorts of shallow infantile self serving reasons

"Bean had been no great admirer of Monash in his early career, in part due to a general prejudice against Monash's Prussian-Jewish background, but more particularly because Monash did not fit Bean's concept of the quintessential Australian character that Bean later mythologised in his monumental Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. (Both Bean and Monash, however, having seen the very worst excesses of Allied military doctrines and the waste of life on the Western Front, were determined that the role of the commander was to look after, and protect as far as possible, the troops under their command.) Bean, who wrote in his diary of Monash "We do not want Australia represented by men mainly because of their ability, natural and inborn in Jews, to push themselves",^[37] conspired with Keith Murdoch to undermine Monash, and have him removed from the command of the Australian Corps."

and, thank god for this

"They misled Prime Minister Billy Hughes into believing that senior officers were opposed to Monash.^[38] Hughes arrived at the front before the Battle of Hamel prepared to replace Monash, but after consulting with senior officers, and after seeing the superb power of planning and execution displayed by Monash, he changed his mind.<sup>[39]"

the rest is history

"The battle was a strong, significant victory for the Allies, the first decisive win for the British Army of the war,[42] causing the Germans to recognise that for them the War was lost. The defeated German leader, General Erich Ludendorff, described it in the following words: "August 8th was the black day of the German Army in the history of the war".[</sup>





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Monash#First_World_War