CHAPTER III

LORD ROBERTS'S WARNINGS

The Manchester speech (October 22, 1912) 332 Liberal denunciation and Unionist coolness 332 Attack concentrated on three passages 333 Two of these have been proved true by events 334 The other was misinterpreted by its critics 335 Liberal criticism 336 Unionist criticism 341 Ministerial rebukes 343 No regret has ever been expressed subsequently for any of these attacks 347