Item ROBERTSON, WR 4/3/11 - Text of a speech to the House of Commons by Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, 2 Jun 1916, defending his record as Secretary of State for War

Text of address by FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, to the Members of the House of Commons, on Army administration explaining the strain put on the War Office by Britain's unreadiness for war, the accomplishments of Kitchener's administration, the munitions question and the reasons for delaying conscription (following a debate in the House of Commons on Kitchener's conduct of the war, with a proposal to lower his salary, 31 May 1916). 24pp.