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SIR BRIAN HORROCKS
service con-
fly off
the handle?
By
LEONARD
A
(wi
th
the five self. his contract with L4 148 A my e ul only be broken by yhs pay rises to 1 wege pod be scon Bath buying himself out
the chances of promotion
bern bette
THE man
flew
MOSLEY
Through Town Briden Becouse no matter who you
and not feel the violent need to his Son the other
assert your independence against Sunday, the mun who authority, to rebel against re-
fu future. LONDON. EEDING to persuade cations permitting. units of
scheme, De talis of the new ne National Service .fantry and RAC will go
to stations cutrine Europe 1
00: shortly, disclosed. An in every ten
years only and veage age of promotion in the which will come Regular soldier. for three become a
but general, the Army will with will then return as complete of us with ile erresponding have not yet been The Army has been taking ♫
Pay per probably undertake to employ Age
a full 22 years pro-kicked Mr Aneurin Bevan gulations, to cock a snook at a pretty good look at its own units; sa soldiers of these rules of pay is today
two arms will have a gon reflection.
chuney of staying for long se with their periods
and the r.piments.
stem will apply as far as presible with other arms.
Its problem
is simple.
. Somehow, if it is to become thoroughly efficient, it must into force build itself composed in equal parts.
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efficient
he may still
e ptinue in the Service it
years. wishes up to 55
he
but,
every few years he will be ai
brity to leave the Army
Life pension
Weck
24
£5 15 6
own & Sonet hame
29
28 13 6
nan for vid he is and After 22 years
Went Officer
Class Ti
1
21
£7 36
36
47 17 6
Most to Lasse rate)
Bd
lup
vice
muny There must be as
National Ser Regulars as
in men--and, with
men
most likely to those young men serving their compulsory term.
two-year
dül-
At the top of the credit
If mugeliowance is nid- velve w: 1 "the nature of the side is
ei a cerpen d
W C cer- There is still a
LR 16. d about the Class 1. £ll it. This may not glamour
to tain
armis. and emmh when compare profession of dustry competing so keenly
Inod. even though 10% to civilian life, but in ad men, the Army has for
many come to the conclusion that
they would never for one judging, fuel and light, clothing recruits are its Regular
admit it, feel this and Nation 4 insurance, and no,nem from come
inside them. They menth's paid leave each year.
Mep when The ext deep gel great satisfaction from the comradeship and the pundary the pride of belonging happy and efficient unit.
There are few
ri
In a silde gets free
civilian Jobs in which a man can retire after a te with 22 years' service pension
to a
And so the military
wisely put thorities have themselves in the place of these young National Ser- vice men and taken a look at the
through their Army eyes. That way, they believe, things they will see those
man to which encourage a
Regular sohtier become a und. just as important. deter those things which him from doing so. The re-
sult is a credit and debit
account between the Army and civilian life.
State of mind
On the debit side there are two main items-loss of personal freedom, and lack I of stability.
Any type of "service" implies the subordination of self to discipline, but if the wisdom of and necessity for discipline can be explained, men will develop a state of mind in which this will be
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Stability, however,
can
be improved. The soldier develops an affection for his own unit and hates being moved round constantly from one to another.
than three years at a outside Europe.
Pay scales
The young National Ser- not commit viceman need himself for a long period until he has seen what life as a regular soldier is like.
-
fer
assels was
to nsure The Ary Craneil
wished to that the man who make the Army his career was KVEN 5 contract as flexible and vel as secure as in the
best
type of civilian Employment, with in addition good reure- meat benefits at the end
Correct flow
in the pants on the steps of
:0
the
exclusive White's Club, and the man who climbed to the top of the Skylon at the numbered. South Bank Exhibition, had future reference;
system machine. something in common
world which grows inexorably perfect secretary's filing cabinet. close in resemblance
ticketed, Here we all are.
for and put away
units in
cogs 10 @ gigantic still But we're
I don't mean they were individuals. So don't let's be
all reckless fools, who ought too harsh
soldier after 22 symptoms A private yeurs service would receive a calling it "revolt
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on the victims
any
to have their ears banged, "revolt psychosis." It's a disease
may all catch, too, which is what some people w
inument now.
The mailer what And say they deserve.
ali No. mean they were
paychiatrists say, there isn't any- Students victims of а newly-invented
thing new about it disease
uld with some very
have been climbing buildings, The psychiatrists are hanging chamber pols on towers.
psychosis. 6. 40 weekly pension of £T
They say that, if modern te panties to weather vaues,
it is at the the way a Wo
goes un rlus a grant of £109;
4d. 16s CL would get £2.
moment (which seeins disreally of £300; likely), more and more people week, plus a grant
will be doing rash and fantastic this could be increase: 10 £5 Ps. 74. plus £500 if he mayed and forbidden things--out ca for 35 years. To achieve this sheer exube
exuberance.
of and in re-
a civilian would have to savebellion against the rigid pressure:
of civilisation today. £4,000.
Separation must be
every soldier, but in future the onset of
language this will be reduced to a mini-
by
up"
since Queen Victoria's tune.
MOST
MR
who
Impulse
were
famous men will tell you there was a moment in their lives when they "flew off Fitz Kreisler, the Mr Frank Miller, pilot in the the handle." expected Tower Bridge exploit, described great violinist, once became su Chai the epidemic in infuriated win his public admirably free from he played a joke on them which when started spontaneously but lasted It is hoped that by 1954 consulting-couch jargon
"Everybody's entitled for nearly 30 years. houses will be available in the he said:
handle once in He knew most of the people UK for all entitled soldiers.
to fly off the
heir life,"
came to hear him This is nest important-bar-
be to
So he dipped his Auster plane, snobs, who would only applaud Expect A man may
thought it was the Thames, und, music if they within "shot He can join up for three couse the long service Reguiar
specialists joined by his family
of arriving in egged on by his 13-year-old son, written by a composer who had years with the Colours and wos, NCOs, and
the three months
So he within six to buzzed through the uprights of been dead & long time
world estimated Gerinany and is only one year longer than in order to maintain the eight months under normal con- the Tower Bridge. It seems to announced to a startled
have taken a load off his mind. one day that, in the cellar of e
monastery, ditions in the Middle Eas
French
he had had four with the reserve. This provide the backbone of
to correct flow of these vital men, would have he
unearthed a treasure of music by case, but at out of every hundred Regulars serve in any
great French composers. once his basic rate of pay of $50 should extend to complete 12 and approxi- to years' service, 1. 8s. a week mounts
mately 40 of these should even- £2.99. which can be in-
tually re-engage for 22 years or creased for efficiency (four inore. stars) to £3, 10s. He also starts on the promotion lad- der, or he may get training as a high class specialist.
that
It has been
In future officers will inter- view cach National Serviceman urter their command and will explain what the Army has to after. If necessary they will
visit the man's Diso It has always been possible and this may well
10 continue meat difficult hurdle of all, be- age
55. of cause "Mum" will take a but once a man had committed of convincing
for the Regular serving until the
One by one
he "revealed"
If these compositions, were ecstatically
A bit dull
JOW does that strike you?
you haven't felt the impulse too, you parents, to fly off the handle,
self adult, prove the must be a very
contained. and balanced charac lot ter A bit dull, I suspic
well.
NEWS OF THE LONDON STAGE: By RONALD ROPER
Noel Coward Restores The Quality
Of Prewar First-Night Glamour
London, Nov. 29.
without dragging across the Atlantic.
Baddeley), who incidentally cabaret appearance, met her own
a magnificent cli- again at a private party. NOEL COWARD is again achieves a magnificent cli
literary bouquets for
a
&
night.
"Relative Values" is also
and they received and intu the repertoire of orchestras on every continent.
It was only a few years ago
ptit
as that he allowed it
that the classical
be known compositions
were composed by himself.
**IL
дл was
uncontrollable Ampulse that made me start the deception," he says. "Once great begun, I couldn't stop.
"
It made
me feel so good to know how I was fooling everyone."
There's only a razor's edge.
dividing
the sometimes, spectacular gesture from stupid and reckless foolhardiness. Where do you draw the line?
On Boal-Race Night London policemen used to lose their helm's to the point of monotony, them and Erus's statue was festooned
with beery students plucking at his bow. None of them went to gaol for it,
did He climbed
magistrate
Ave days of public indignation
to get him out again.
A
Contrasts
BOY in South Africa took
up a plane while no one was
looking, flow around for half
a classic
n more famous
American
and then had to be
to earth. back
for "Summer and Smoke." Thone
know
Glass "The
"A Streetcar Menagerie" and
the theme and welcome
a lot of
"This one," he says, "manages to be half-baked, hard-boiled,
But, a couple of Januáries ago. In the sure hands of Mr something of a mannequin juvenile and all too grown-up in
An Anglo-American cast, plumber Coward, an insubstantial parade for Gladys Cooper, onc.
A crowd below. The cause is quite simple. comedy of sophisticated wit, Values." Savoy
play, while enabling him to whose guiding rule on and which for its own good shall be Eros and recited Keats to the While regiments may stay "Relative
get in some telling thrusts off the stage is: "Never nameless, plays it as energetically
poetic enthusiasm, and it took abroad for many years, it is Theatre audiences, in
of atmosphere the generally accepted rule fragrant
The play is reported to have ao well, brings together a that flatter but do not date." does not in the least." that men do not spend more exotic perfume and cigar at the Hollywood he knows overdress; choose clothes as if it really mattered, which it gave him three months for his
time smoke, are revelling in this
study in social highly gifted company who For a morning scene she
New York and Melbourne. May- smooth
could hardly have succeeded wears a shirt-waist dress been a box-office success both in more adroitly in restoring in grey pique; in the after be this is evidence that postwar nuances. bat-
a cafe-au-lait, boot- London has retained some sense The first night was a cele-
stage that noon to the London Consequently, if a
after brities "date" as well as a talion moves east
quality which is still all too buttoned poplin frock with of theatre volues. stage occasion. being 21 years in Cyprus, notable
best described 39 the druped artists how at neck; many men will remain be- Princess Margaret and the rarely achieved and which is softly pleated skirt and hind and be sent to another Duchess of Kent, departing glamour of a prewar first- for dinner she appears with WE are indebted, however, to an hour performing tutored He made it regal dignity in unit in the Middle East, from a royal custom which
fine lad with because it is not worth tends to avoid first-nights,
For wit and thrust the Bown by John Tullis, a playwright, Tennessee Williams, sately and was publicly hailed
cousin of Capt. Molyneux. who them watched Gladys Cooper de while dispatching
gule." easily out- admirers performance
But a young man in Amerien when they light her many further afield
Named Desire" will recognise did the same thing, lost control will be due to return to with a brilliant top-of-her- Jeromes Jerome and, in the
of his plane, and crashed on a untailing Of unit in Europe in six form comeback. Somerset uproarious middle act, out-
crowd-killing four people. What at Shaw and Beatrice Shaves
hie By way of contrast to the new proof of the author's Maugham
Coward success, the West sonse of the theatre.
did they call tim? months' time.
has had the Ka
of uncontrol- Ind
Since the imp Lillie were also there for the "Pymalionest. After that it
To a Mississippi background latest Coward masterpiece. Is difficult to avoid bathos: spectacle of police called to a
curiously illable impulse is likely to break the social climbing inter theatre the Strand-where on the lives of two loper is merely led out of
mhet with a hostile re- table young woman and a well-let us hope, that it doesn's cause
diamond-areI don't know why I did it too much havoc. .coption
almost from the first meaning rough
turns into a They are therefore
by Hugh McDermott, who to keep things going to the end, disillusioned spinster capable of but I felt so much better after- mesh draft, arriving from worldly-wise downger wood type, admirably drawn llae. But the company managed traced until one
to way after "Buzzing" countess who astutely re-
the Tower la socking to face life afresh with are likely
Bridge ...kicking for England.
trieves the situation when a strong and silent but not when there was renewed booling almost anything while the other wards," is the sort of thing you
on the audience broke up.
a new-found respectability.
Anmarin Bevan, or climbing, the The evils of the system her son (Ralph Michael) so dumb.
'The opposition appears to have Noel Coward, who de
Margaret Jolihaton, who plays Skylon. are well known to the Army is in danger of marry-
A witless actress clined to make a curtain been merited. As Cecil Wilson Council and a great im Ing
and moving per- his mother-bi-low a costess wit endless farces about maternity beautifu provement will take place (Judy Campbell), in speech, joined Princess Mar comments. If we must have opposite William Sylvester, en-But many a murderer has also when their new drafting reality the sister of the garet in the author's box at wills, worthless, tasteless and hates her reputation with sald exactly the some after diving plan is introduced in April. counters's maid (Angola both intervals and, after his we should be able to concoct our formance.
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