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WRITING WITH THE AUTHORITY of his experience as former Under-Secretary for War, a Socialist M.P. today makes an accusation which is likely to cause the keenest argu- ment. Woodrow Wyatt, M.P., was himself a soldier; he landed in France within a week of D Day. Here he contends that now in peacetime the Brigade of Guards is "the last entrenched stronghold of privilege and snobbery in the British Army.” Is this true?
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No other regiments will be brought home for the Coronation before their tour of overseas duty is over.
can
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NEW FACES under
N
The day SPIVVERY broke out
It started with the blackout and flourished among shortages
By TREVOR EVANS
TOW it is official. The relying on the residue of the 'day the spiv was prewar unemployed to man', up
born WAR the day cur war factories.
the first of the wartime shortages begnu to press on Britain.
Shortages begat regula tions, and regulations begat the dodgers, the wide boys.
One of the sharpest remind- ern that there was a war on come from Lord Beaverbrooke, This, through alightly tinted Beard of Trado pectacles, ta
what the book ways of him.
Increased demand for factory The main reason for the It started in the blackout premises was air attack or the with torches and No. 8 threat of attack. The greatest batteries. The profiteers demands came from the Minia and speculators muscled-in it was supremely important for try of Aircraft Production, for early on those. Then came the survival of Britain that alr the quotas and the licences. eft production should not be
crippled by bombing. By the end of 1040 Foods worth millions of pounds had liegally reached the home mar- ket. Bogus quota holders hud made
many thousands pounds in commission. A re- gular trade bad grown up in
and seller
introducing buyers
of
to
"The answer of Lord Beaver- brook and his Ministry bombing was dispersal, Comes timer dispersal meant the re
moval of a vital production
་ . unit from one area to another,
units.
Sometimes It meant that whit Sunday afternoon, Juke 1, split up into several smaller Clothea rationing come on large production unit had to be 1941. And with it a new plague of tndeteers. They had to be fought. A coupon banking
The
Ministry of Aircraft WIS introduced. The Production pursued its dispersal scheme smart boys wou'd tear up news policy with energy and on ủ papers, slip them in envelopes very large scale. As early as to the banks hoping that there Oct
October 1940 (when Lord would be no check, and that Beaverbrook Jud been in office new quotas would be issued less than six months] 384 new against them.
premises had been acquiroq for airframe and engine production alone; in. addition, instrument production, and radio manufac fure had been, partly dispersed,"
his
Lord Beaverbrook reminded the War Cabinet at the end of dispersal November of policy. He asked for a ruling that "any premises anywhere that were not in betual occupa- tion should be at the disposal of the Ministry of Aircraft Pro duction." The War Cabinet tried provided another de apartment which had earmarked premises could have them back it necessary.
Where do these facia come from? Why, from a 250,000- word tome cumbersomely tiled. us Information of enemy move- ments in front of us. Its officers and priced. The title is "Hi were so inefficient, and its in-tory of the Second World War: Civil Industry and Trade" formation so misicading, that (published by the Stationery the use of it had to be stopped. Omer and
Longmans). The Yes, I contend the men are price is 378, da fine; the, sergeant-majors and other non-commissioned officers are superb; alas, the officers arc, too often, not above
"ER OUT armed forces the democratic principle is stronger than in any other country. There are no military cliques." So
average.
THE BOWLERS?
by WOODROW WYATT, M.P.
spoke General
Bradley, Chief of Staff of the U.S. A. recently.
That ought to be true of the British Army, Democratic reforms have widened opportunity enormously since the
war,
The result is that the British Army is the best trained in the
-world today.
Privilege and the Guards the words are almost synony mous. Not that there be any ob.
the jection to
When officers pass out little, and some who would livening to her Majesty's Coronation procession by from Sandhurst, they are not normally be commis
to state a pre- sioned find their way in. the presence of her gay and allowed colourful Guards. As her ference for the regiment. But up to the time when But is it fully effective in personal troops that is one they would like to join. I left the War Office on one meeting demands that no avenue of their main functions. The Whether they get their had received a regular com- of advancement should be question is: Who gets the choice depends on how well mission in the Guards since refused to the enterprising?
done they have
at their the end of the war who was privileges and why?
military studies.
not at a public school or educated privately at his The qualifications for the parents' expense, Guards' closed shop are a
A Guardsman in the ranks must be five foot ten
The only quarter which holds out are the officers of the Guarda. With thele backs to the wall they fight grimly on for
Two people have svrliten t
an Oxford . L. Hargreaves. doh, and Mrs. M. M, Gowing, London economist.
Their books mainly devoted to the work of the Board of
There was criticism of Lord
policy. It would
Other make
Trade in the war. This in the Beaverbrook's belated medal
for Millbank, Ministers 'sald where the Board of Trade's orderly allocation of premises headquarters were. So
all the unworkable. spivvery and all the maldistri- bution ara cited not evidence of the things that went wrong, but as examples of the problems which the Board of Trade had to put right.
as
And, let's be fair, it put most of them right, mainly because of the general. public's deter mination that there should be fair shares.
ever, came
It took Lord Beaverbrook alx weeks of negotiations with Sir John Anderson, Lord President sonal intervention of Mr Chur- of the Council, and the per-
a control ochemo chill before
was established.
It gave "extreme priority" to the Ministry of Aircraft Pro-
The biggest jolt of all, hew-duction when any factory was
to Mark alle bombet
cut of action. Mr Mr Churchill formed his war Churchia was to be "informed time Government in May, 1940. of any case in which there was This volumé proves that up more than 48 hours daisy in to then it really had been a finding new premises." "phoney war" dor most Govern- Yes, some aspects of the wat ment departments. Right up to crme late to Millbank. But it Arrl 1940-only a month be welghod-ins mightily cri tho fore' Mr. Cliùrchill took over-civilian front before the war
Inches high and of good
family association with a The majority of officers the right to hereditary privilege. the Government was actually ended, physique. He must be pre-
Guarda regiment, and serving in the Guards were pared to accept the most rigorous dribing and dis- enough private means to be at Eton or Harrow.
cipline in any of the three. able to keep up socially Thousands of commissions
services. At the end of his with training, he will be the officers.. bravest and most resolute soldier in the world.
SNOBBERY
Queen's
well-to-do brother
Fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and un- cles are powerful and in dispensable assets. Too few inquiries are made as to brains or technical skill provided that he has passed through Sandhurst, however sketchily.
have gone to non-public school boys in other regiments, but the Guards still keep their system of nepotic selection intact.
NOT ENOUGH
4d CORONATION SEATS
-BUT NOT
I
or
NOT NEXT
NEXT YEAR
By J. W. Taylor
the business:
the
THE million
mora buildings, the third tier being lie spoke also of doing "tally Guards,
spectators along the let with the rooms behind for well at Southwark watere, ha THE
900 guineas, OES
on Scovell to Horse and Foot, there-
Dave materno, because Coronation route next June fast until luncheon, Seals said I have let a window, in lady of title bravery and no one says will find seats both scarce the first and second tiers went at 70 guineas," these Guards forc, are a corps d'elite, so
officera lack
The and expensive, ranging from for 20 to 25 guineas. He also lot far as the men go. The ex-
courage is not enough.
· Money also
Similar prices opemted at the is needed, me has gone when success the Ministry of Works' 100,- a room in Pleddilly with two ceptional courage and re-
9ft double windows and three Coronation procession of King liability in battle of Guards because although the De- in battle went to the regimente 000 uncovered "Cheup" ones gmall 2 ft, windows for 250 George V in 1911, by which time
been brett side may be all right, who could stand up under fire at £3. 10s to. £5. 10s to gunean.
Government had entered unita has never
into the business. They built "spiv" agency accommoda-. doubted. For a stonewall job a higher standard of living the longest,
stands with seats int prices, to It wo are to have a corption in windows, en route.
cover the cost of erection and against odds they cannot be is maintained by Guards
officers than by those of d'elite-and even the Americana "with refreshments guaran The Doctor and others show a small profi: Prices bettered.
have their Marines it is other regiments.
coutlet to officers selected on a teed" from £100 per person fetiin? seats. Obtained their, At the last Coronation Beats
engaged in
ok ranged from Bs, to 10s, a seat. basis of competence, not privi- tq higher suma for wealthy highest prices, on the route of were let at from five) 20" 25 For peacetime ceremonial
The Army Council has lege. Some Guards officers are foreigners.
the "short" Coronation proces quiness. the Guards make a perfect
laid down that the daily good but the level of intelli- Once, spectacle.
As the great day draws near sion, which traversed Plendilly, because charge for food, extra to the, gence and efficiency is the demand for seats will be St James Street and Whitehall, Spectators of the Edward II
Coronation they, are the Royal free Army rations, in an that of, other regiments. such that even some who long Prices were lower on the second bodyguard, they were never allowed out of Britain in, between wars. Now they have to soldier overseas in Malaya, or other trouble spots, like other re- giments.
below
pascession in, 1307 officer's mess shall not be I can remember a late-into- ago booked expensive points of Coronation roule which covered paid a farthing a scat The more than 2s. 6d. a day. the-night conference at a Corps vantage will be unable to resist less crowded areas through the price was a halfpenny twenty Headquarters In Normandy the fantastic offers of Inte City and Southwark Neverthe years later at the Coronation of Weary staff officers were plan comers, and are expected to re- less, scuts were sold at lucrative his Een, Edword III. This was ning complicated moves of units soll at prices amounting to as prices by Dr, Luna and sinliar Richard it in 1877, and in 1505 for the next day in preparation much as 2900 a chair. for an attack.
EXPENSIVE
4܃
At art, by 3.30 am, the plans
for the Coronation
Dzencies,
specistors pală a great (50) for Dr. Lunn's grand scale effort a seated view of Honry VIII's was at the Borough Polytechnic, Ceronation processions THE charge in Guards off
cers messes, where such were completed. Then up spoke Seat Tetting really became an where he built a stand for 2.000 They have adapted them-
the senior staff officer from the organised business for the rat people, charging 38.0 for selves to modern conditions instructions are regarded as Guards division involved. time on a ble scale at the breakfast and 4s 6d for lunch, to
'Senis" for the Coronation of Edwardian Coronation. Notable with scats on the root up in all respects but one the a joke is way above that,
and the pricom "I'm terribly sorry tire for cashing in on the boom three guiness. Other scats were the First Elizabeth in 1658 cost. recruitment of their officers If a Guards officer cannot sald, "I've been working on a
ho described was De
as the ten guineas, but the 17 rooms sixpence cocb;
the stand becked on swore hired had risen to:
half-a-crown
·IL. Prices 'soared "somewhat, by corps of the Guards is the off-duty pursuits as his not the ones were in now. who bought up what is sull the 200 gulness och va
the time George III's growning last entrenched stronghold, brother officers, he will soon And all was to do again, e Anest, site, on the Coronation in falmes to the Doctor, it was reached in 1780, when of privilege to be subsidised ho made to feel out of it. can remember, too, a route at the great entrance to must be pointed out that most of spectators, paid a quien fue ya by the State. Snobbery, not fiji diabe efficiency, determines the In war naturally the field squadron of a reconnaisance the Abbey did the proceeds want to le mathia price. Was outra 6 three-tice Folytechnic, but he recalypd a for the enthronement of Queen regiment ! by the Household selection
of selection is broadened & Cavalry. Its duty, was to give stand in front of the omes, quite alienactory common, Victoria, gen
for
basis of the positions (ave were Who on record": In pencetime. The officer: follow the same, expensive in the day before yesterday, and Henry S. Lumn, the meresarly, cut at prices varying from: 75 to the 1000 Coronation of Charles.
The Doctor
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