Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 171
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now that's the right sort of talk & worth listening to - If the Empire is to hold together it must be thro naval efficiency & this means the efficiency of Units - Its not the drinker its not women it's the hard strong men who should manage affairs & insist on the absolute efficiency of all those under them & fire out all the weak & the useless - They say that Fisher even resorted to a kind of espionage in order to detect inefficiency & to find out the efficient - The end in his opinion justified the means - Fisher seems to have been the Democrat while Beresford was the old fashioned Conservative - Beresford's day has gone by while Fisher is in the ascendant - So far as I can see Fisher is quite right - I'd go farther – alcoholism I wd regard as a cause of inefficiency & I'd fire out any officer or man who habitually drank - You cant trust them - I can see that at once even with my limited experience -