Westerners

History of the Westerners

The following commentary about Westerners in the Churchill Era is produced by the Churchill College (Cambridge): Those political and particularly military figures who, in the First World War, advocated concentrating all Allied efforts on the Western Front, even to the point of ignoring other fronts altogether. Trying to evict the Germans from the huge tract of northern France which they occupied in 1914 was a political as well as military imperative for the French, and Britain, as the junior ally, was obliged to support them. Major “westerners” included Field Marshal Haigand Sir William Robertson. They were opposed by “easterners”, including Lloyd George andChurchill.