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The Arst steps towards obtaining a commission in the B.A.F. are now more difficult than most people think.
The process of selection has become far more scientific. I aspired to join the 1913. Royal Flying Carpa in the colonel of the infantry battalion in, which I ля a subaltern Inquired acidly why I wanted to be a mountebank. This so discouraged me that did not enter the R.F.C. until! 1915. I was only allowed to de I had been so then because
the foot severely wounded, in at Ypres,
Selection
to aclve the final test in the] to Baila i raft and convey the yook. When the solution was large drum across the lake on explained to us by the staff it.. phychologist, it seemed maddenites made no use of the ingly simple.
dinkd, is they were intended Psychologists, although ad- torbus, with the thin polos ind mitting that such tests are vul nail drums, constructed a frail nerable to the criticism that raff, which, surprisingly, did they are merely puzzles, tugiatot sink under the weight ref. that experience has shown they the Jarge drum, The dinghy are the quickest and most rewould carry only one boy at a time. Only one team realised method of that the quickest petting it to and fro across the lake was to tie a rope to each end of it and pull it from either slioré..
By AIR COMMODORE L.G.S. PAYNE
methoti of
liable
asscasing natural intelligence, irrespec- tive of the type of education the candidate has received.
Discussion Topics Candidates were provistač with special clothing for this It should be emphasised that (est, which they seemed great- the boys are not passel or fail
y to enjoy. After they had changed back into their
own problems and tests they are clothes a discussion took place given. The Initiative..and in-in the ante-room. The direct genuity they display is con- ing staff took no part in this sidored more important than a but listened to the boys delate
three subjects; strictly correct solution.
the qualities required in a leader; whether a classical or a technical educa- tion was of most value to R.A.F. officors, and the nature of the instruction provided in the Air Training Corps and how it could be improved,
is in Greece, whom she has I was first interviewed by a Guards oilica who asked Jarraigned before the Security whether I oda motor cycle On the last occasion, infortunately I did and February, when Greece uccupied whether I had over ridden oned on their ability to solve the the attention of the Council it the Cresta. He look little fur- Moscow herself, not her ther interest in the matter, once Ukrainian puppet, who raised the, he had satisfled himself that [questions, and it was against th
vaa permanently Incapacitated of British troops that for the infantry. As some of presence the complaint was directed. Thi my friends have since pointed Thus, in the team tests,
and time it is Greece herself who i
put. much casual method ob operation within teams the immediate object of
vicusly do not produce the beat competition between them in eu- attack
types of officers for the air aer-couraged, but which team win though complaint is once mori
vices.
is. comparatively unimportant lodged against the presence o
The directing staff are anxious British troops. There is no dubiety.
to see which boys display quall- lies of leadership, which are intolerant and dictatorial, which are cheerful and determined despite setbacks, and which are merely "passengers."
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Three Days' Interview Candidates for the RAF. College at Cranwell are now sent to Framewood Manor for what was described to me by one of the staff there as a three days' extended interview, At Framewood they are under ob servation by senior officers, who
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much service in RAF
during operational commands the last war. The staff in cludes a psychologist and paychiatrist.
to the reason for the selection of Greece, as the pawn in these manoeuvres. It is because Greece the only country in the Balkans which is not the tame instrument of Russian policy. The Tsaldaris Government in particular is the tete noire of Moscow, because it is the only Government between the Baltic and the Mediterranean elected by what bears any sem- blance of a free and uncorrupt popular vote, a vote, moreover, in The candidates, who come which the partisans of Moscow from all classes of the commu- suffered a resounding defeat. Ninity, ara anonymous and dis- one will claim that the Taaldaris tinguished from each other Government is a model Govern only by numbers. Their names ment, which is an ideal beyond are known to the commandant the scope of Balkan conditions, but not to the examining staff. but its title to speak for theThis is to eliminate the possi majority of the people is incom- bility of sons of Air Vice-Mar- hals, or other people in pro-
MILITARY RACE MEETING parably better founded than that
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HAPPY VALLEY RACE COURSE ON SUNDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER
receiving
and coopération. The boys perform their tester sometimes as individuals and sometimes as members of a
positions, minent of any other Balkan Government. taveured treatment. That is no doubt a good reason Applicants are dealt with in why it should provoke the ani groups of 24, sub-divided dur- mosity of the Ukraine and her ing, the first two days into fellow-satellites, but it is no real teams of eight to encourage son at all why a defeated male- competition factor such as Bulgaria should receive their support in her im- pertinent claim of aggrandise. ment at the expense of their late Greek ally. It seems to have been forgotten that Greece defied the Fascist aggressors at a time when Russia was still in formal alliance with Hitler, and that her foremost factor
team.
In writing this, I may he accused of giving away stable accrets." But no acting by the boys will deceive this experien- ced staff. The instructions givon to each boy include this paragraph:
"The Selection Board wish
to see you as your natural self and to find out your qualities and ideas You. will therefore baalst the Selection Board most by being natural and excluding shyneas or the adoption of artificial or superficial poses.":
I visited Framewood on the last day of a course. The only Brown, .Permanent.. Under- other visitors were Sir William Secretary of State for Air, and Air Vice-Marshal HK. Thorold, Senior Air Staff Officer in the RA.F. Flying Training Com; mand, mat
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Most of the candidates had decided, views on those topics. For example, nearly all the boys were strongly of opinion, that more training in sliders and flights in powered aircraft should be provided for A.TC. caueta.
ers.
Army:
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"I don't care what the boss said 'we-golța do—we' al
'competin' wit' uo more railroads!!"
Town Life And The Birthrate
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produce a soldier who la/traff- ed to the last degree to with stand great hardships (but who is also provided. with, reasöf- ablo comforts" and amenities when he is, off duty."
It le good to learn-Ipda frientla who have taken -hall- days in Norway and Dehmark with what courtesy and/ -
Investigating Mood
This is the peak of Britain's holiday season with Parliament In recess, but our minds con- tinue to be occupied with grave The system of selection Framewood la considered
probléma and arguments are have proved no successful that unceasing- As I tramped up the previous method of sond- and down Surrey hills recent. ing canvidates for the officers my companion" (a doctor of training college at Cranwell for 30 who ran 27 miles both on half-hour interviews with his 25th and on his 45th birth joint Civil Service and R.A.F. daya): discoursed to me on
h recolved' merely ̈ ̈ beðáúáé doned.
"This. I understand, is that although in World War I were British and to nota thất Boat in Lendon will be 'nban- population: facts among themense friendliness they were with the full approval of the our birthrate went down, in this Mr. Lowis Mumford, the dir
war.It has gone up and that in tinguished American, sociologist Civil Service Commissioners.
systemat truth it began to rise at, the and town planner, has said ATCEE Moreover, the Framewood has been closely very time that the threat of four weeks of exploration here
Army off-war started to cloud the sky.
that if he were an Englishman The War Office now „pro- This seemed to' answer,my he would have immenie, pulse studied by senior pose to set up a very similar argument that families had confidence today, adding that establishment near Horaham crown small partly because he locks on the people of Eri- for the initial selection of an women refused to bear children tain, so for de huine affairs ko, dichter for commissions in the to become cantiga fodder I say as more "awakewell Hah svened to, because I tannot | in the world, morally, and *ro altogether ballqve that there's tellectually, more fit than oth The R.A.F., however, not receiving, through Frame | nothing in that view. Hia own more purposive and self-com wood, as many successful en heller is that town life so de- Odent.-ngay
us they hilitates women that bearing'a ̧ trants for Cranwell would like. There is no lack child takes far, too much out of The problems they are set
of candidates, but the number them so that they shrink from include written tests, but no
who pass successful through a second child, and shrink still But he saw sothe dangers of tiredness, written examination in the
Frameword is small compared more from a third:" strict sense of the word, and
with the number examined. Out "I am left wondering whether thought our now outdoor exercises. There are
of me recent batch of 24 boys the size of the town is a factor. towns are meant to no trick solutions. No feats of
only two passed, and out of an- and whether the new towns we fast. I hope we whale wale strength, endurance or extreme
other only Ave. The Air.Minis are going to build (there's a and heel the searching aves of CASH SWEEPS There will be a Sperial Unsh Sweep on the
in upsetting Hitler's time-table agility are required for the
try are not prepared to lower plan to build five towns to re- our visitors. I dareary, we shall Just race, tickets for which ($2) may be
their standards of quality to steve Oxford of industrial con-- for we're. In an investigating obtained at the ice of The Hong Kong and thereby helping to save the physical tests..
improve the quantity of, passes. gestion) will be small enough, mood. This changing. Britali Jockey Club, Exchange Building, First floor,rity of Moscow from the fate of
Assessing Intelligence
Each team had a rubber Senior R.A.F. officers ascribe and afford women gardens bigla under keen scrutiny fran Logether with the usual "Through" numbers Warsaw. As to the ostensible
with sull of those dinghy, thin poles--presumably these somewhat disappointing enough, combined
our own eyes.. "Middle of the minde ($10) including a
Use is also chance in the Special grounds of the Ukrainian com Sweep.
plaint against Greece, it is con- tests which involve finding the for punting this and a num respite to an erroneous impres- clent inhour-saving devices in-road" Journals containya gubit ceivable that there may have been missing piece to complete a ber of atout planks and smaller sion that commissions in the doors to give them time to grow deal of biting satirical, claine
pattern. I looked through a empty drums. The large drum R.AF. are easy to cbtain, This strong and fit working in garsing stuff that tilts at burea some frontier brawls, for these are book of these problemis. The could not be taken across the in turn, leads to candidates of deus or playing games. The | cracy. The times ard lively aljd endemic in the Balkans as far
comparatively, poor quality ap subject is one of immense im probably greater liveliness, north as Trieste. If there are early ones were rudimentary, lake in the dinghy.
The obvious solution, quickly pearing before the R.A.F. Selec-portance. It will tax all our ahead; but one can note some but neither I nor two meribers Hocal disturbances
among the
of the directing staff were able realised by all three teams, was tion-Beardi
Ingenuity to adjust our man changes that all will, favour northern mountain regions of|
power to the demands upon it the start of Family Allowances Greece that, too, is nothing either!
My doctor, foresaw in the near for children: the proposed, res new or unique. What is new and v.V., Says
future aur having a plan to duction in time from six miniba unique is the discovery that these
allocate the requisite labour to to six weeks, for a divorced to our basic industries, and per become "ubsolute the purchase conditions constitute म present threat to the peace.
haps another, plan to draw by a group of friends of Chile.... well, Mr. Churchill's house, "ib Labour from abroad. now that the case is being heard
Consider: we are raising th become a permanent points on school leaving, age, we are cof the nation; the turning over deavouring to recruit 100,000 from coal to ell of another men fer the Army by not handful of railway, engines: And
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A Ferrying Problem The candidates, divided 'Into teams of eight, were perform ing, the final outdoor exercise. Each team had to convey them selves and large empty patrol drum across a shallow and com- paratively narrow lake, The drum had to be kept dry. The boys were not allowed to wade acros8, but if they fell in. which many did, could wade back to the shore from which they started.
Hong Kong Has Thrown Good Taste
Overboard?
Moral Upheaval.
vite to the gentleman with the Regular Army as distinct theatre circuit in Lancashire ribbons and pips.
from men called up for short and Yorkshire, Where we stopped thinking service; we have an agrooment webop the point that sociabili- | with the Australian Government
Army Reforms
Halsey Still Regrets
Field-Maushal Montgomery The Bomb
daris is likely to produce some interesting evidence as to the fount and origin of the troubles A statement by a Police In- they to come here even on a ferred the rugged fisherman March that is, volunteers for the creation of a repertory which prevent the restoration of | tranquillity in the
disturbed spector at Central Court that brief visit,” Jarca. Whoever stands to gain the Garden Road area is no by the continuance of unsettled longer a place where a decent conditions in Greece it is certain man and woman can walk after A general mural upheaval hasly will Wanchal Belled was con- for British familles to go out ly not Britain, who seeks nothing pan poses a whole series of occurred perhaps attributable siderably helped on by our and about 100,000 souls have so much as the earliest opportunity speculative questions on what in partnd the fees that myocabulary of Chinese already. Alled up the appropriate of withdrawing her troops with has happened to our public haven't had a revivalist visit wards whereas the Burma aray
ing us, since the end of the war, campaigners few words!" of out leaving chaos behind. That is
Few people ever looked at the Hindustani were. Double Dutch‹ as well known to M. Manuilsky, The Hong Kong resident has, tracts that were passed out by to the yours Indy met in ond the Ukrainian spokesman, as to after a hundred staid and res the guardians of Christionor the other of our smarter other more detached observers. If pectable years; become slovenly morals at street corners before cooprets. The Burma veteran may be suggested to M. Manuil about many things. Good taste, the war. These were usually ught Just as well have sky and his friends that if they in being. Thrown overboard thrust into one's pocket as soon stuck to Plain English will give the soldier more free.
Washington, Sept. 21. Though our citizenry has never as the earbest young man, WAN“
dom "when off duty, abolishing really desire to avert threats to been less sinful than that of out of sight, (but finding one
Admiral Halweg azzdalned today Wanted, A Revivalist “lighta put," roll calls, short he did, not usean-co/say the state the peace, the best way of further other towns, barring of course of these in our pockets aftor
DENTAL proses, allowing N.C.O to bomb was just a toy or that poiki- ing that aim would be to allow Marseilles, Port Baid and a late night produced pangs of However, the time is ripe for walk out with privates, and fists made the dechlon, to drop, în the Paris Conference to get down Shanghai, we were. able always confèience in the hardient soul, ¦ a wayfvalist. They do a lot of giving: men" (when labour and on, Hiroshima, P to the serious business of peace in the past to sin in private. W have definitely become a spog, while, they are here and materids are avaliable); theirs. He lived a formal s making instead of protracting the
slovenly. "Klummy race. One" has the memory lingers. The last | own bed-robins and alttingi denilik, with bámarks/ futility of the past month's pro- Emily Would Be Shocked pa ja look at the way our men ore Dr. Ollyer, got a number of rooms Instand of the old bar him fg was interram ceedings.
Stir | drill. Trus enough, clothes have four; man, popular, citisooni pils] radka#235AARALA On Somerset Maugham's become an expensive, Item, on bicly confessing that they, were a Field-Marshal - Montgomer grand tour of the Far East In one budget. Siumminess, how mening, shoop. No one make no bones about aylag wa the early 20s much was collect- svih har roached · the - point fdaughed later, not even in pri- that the Infusion of democra. Mes ed that later appeared in "East Whit Modlara, are a crumblon jualan ATbwobars lost some busi tie principios Into British;
BURMESE WANT ALL POWER
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and West An King." "Tür "tronikers Kredi efnanired and Rangoon, Sept. 21. Gentlomin- Ini thu Parlour shifES Dr. U. Aungan, President The Painted Well”-- of the Anti-Farlet Legxue, bad Chinese Bernen, a 10-minues talk swith the painted nously, all Governet, Bir Hubert Rance, Fast as a bayan. today, about the formation of ■ the
How governmental an
The Governor spade, cari
proposal which
Lefore the Loagul
book
has outlined plans for Army reforms which, if carried out
nosa, for a few wooks. It made life star fromy impedi thomwpuder and prices came Army's fighting - whet desain berg, and there, and, the disproved it?/the fatmatesof the "mall chow!" gran grester mutus
improved