SOUTH CHINA SUNDAY POST-HERALD, MAY 19, 1957.
As Britain prepares to sack its brass-hats the Government asks scores of employers-
WOULD YOU
GIVE A JOB
Page 19-
TO A GENERAL?
ז'
By J. P. GALLAGHER
London.
Air
axed Admirale, and
officers walked the streets, could arise again. Many of these men fool adrift when they leave the Forces, they are rather lost and apt to say, 'I'm no good. A lot under-value themselves,
to ex-
BRITAIN'S and Generis prospect in civillan life. Many posts once openings o
And
I have been investigating the chances of jobs for the 13,000 or so officers between 33 and 47 who will be run out of the Services in the next five years. the plain fact is that, by and large, British firms are scared of them!
Chances for men under 30 or The other half seele jobs as officers with technical qualifica- charity organisers, club socre tions are good. But the men at tarles, in agriculture, and oc
to the top look like forming a sad castonally
professions. and dihusioned army of Jost (But the Army. For hurtance. souls, realising that a lifetime's has been shocked by the num career in the service of their be thinking of emigrating.) country does not automatically enlilie them to plum elvilian jobs.
Yet these
men
Three objections
lt l
the pollee and coastguards, for example now go to career men."
I heard of onc £2,500-a-
year lob as chict of a police. college near Coventry. For this. I was told, eight Generals, three Admirals, and three Air Mar- shals applied. Major-General R. M. Jelf was specially re- leured as Chief of Staff, Eastern Command, to taite the appoint- ment,
Not easy
Social anobbery does help, of course. One big trading firm in must Uit
dockied never long before ex- London
they could for the top to keep up their offers hit the three great ob- balance the dropped altches of way of life. Low salaries added jections to top braer in business. the board of directors by having to their pensions, plus the costs Two of the biggest firms in A contact man a General with of going to work, leave them Britain told me bluntly: "Take sufficient social graces. He ja out of pocket when tax is taken. in senior officers not They'd doing very well and so is the
Typical of the men un the tapedo our promotion Indder?" firm. market already today is triple Men who have spent years D.S.O. Rear Admiral Ben working towards the top don'l officers to do like Ben Bryant welcome Importations over thels
Bryant. perhaps Britain's greatest submarine ace of the lart war. Retired at $1, Bryant told me: "I'm going to take a course in business management. People like me must get jobs paying £1,000 a year or more or it is useless.
heado,
"Their dens are too rigid," uid another firm. "Many can be cart in manner and short in
temper."
ex-officers;
the
A stigma
THIS IS BEN
BRYANT
AT WAR
Our most brilliant submarine ace, now retired at 51 as a Roar-Admiral, is taking a course in business management,
Algerian problem baffles France
Рагін.
I la rot cany for many ex-
and go back to school, Men over 40 don't learn easily. Some can pay up to 250 quines plus 10. fuineas a week maintenance for an eight-week churse in busi- pers management. Others lake THERE is no doubt that, as moment Increasingly vocal, if But General Sir Maurice the five-week course for senior Dowse, whose job at the Officers officers only run by the Federa- the months pass and no not preponderant.
of British Industries and clear way out of the Algerian Several hundred French Their advantages Association is to look after lon
This by no dilemma becomes visible, farmers of Sidi Bel Abbes have Eelor men. cinims: "Shown the the Polytechnic.
there is more
Д and more sent
unanimous *Ex-vilcers have certain ad- way, our people are superbly means cuarantees them jobs,
resolu- vantages of education, back-
anguished heart searching on to M. Lacoste, the Minister ground, and physique; they are adaptable. Even Sir Maurice,
Resident, insisting that "Algeria among all kinds of French- cannat subsist without France, "I however, concedes the force of used to taking deckons.
the third and perhaps
men.
and France cannot keep its rank personnel relations, for instance, the Navy has something over greatest objection to untrained
Public debate on the subject Power unless this territory be
as a great reonomie and military industry. We do fur more to fter the team spirit and take
Feel adrift
is constant and French nows- longs to it." care of the men. I admit some senior officers may not be the
They often do not get ол most amenable to criticism and with the trade unions! discipline, and the most suc- Many xecutives can reels cessful omeers are perhaps the long lists of unhappy CX- "I belleve that officers who least tailor-made fur civilian perlences with ex-brass-hats have to retire can make good life."
placed in charge of lature civilian executives. They already When today oflcers put off iations.the most delicate as- know about the leadership and their uniforms for the last time pect of vanny businesses today, management of men. Their pro
Warns General Dowse: "Jobs biem will be to obtain the neec It is now nearly four months and gloomily retreat in their club to consider the future, in industry, except for meni sary Leolinical qualifications. The
since Government spokesman Hall with pepper qualifications,
War Once will help in this, announced the Imminent pro what do they hope fir want to go into industry.. Most not easy to come by without but they will also need
theclamation of reforms which of these expect something com- luck. It is no good these min sympathetic understanding of would provide the framework parable with their pati rank,
lo get into expecting
industry Industry, commerce, the tor Algeria's future. Details Just like that, The earlier they professions, Given that under- still remain locked in the Prime But few ret it.
The favourite targets ire: are shocked into realisation of standing I do not doubt that res Minister's secret file.
tired Personnel relations executives, this, the belter."
officers will soon hold personal assistants to directors
their own in civilian life."
Another man spending
are
Few will go near the Ministry of Labour, helpful though it can be. "There is n sort of stigma, a whim of the dole about it," explained one officer,
papers endlessly print articles by Mr Julian Amery, M.P., Un-investigators on the spot cover- der-Secretary of State for War, every aspect of the matter.
Yet none of all this seems to told me:
bring any nearer a reconcillo
on between those who demand that Algeria be held at all costs and those who plead for 1 negotiated peace.
his
le as Mr Amery.
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and
and chairmen, and top-level life anding jobs for officers, I wish I could be as optimis contacting jobs where languages Rear-Admiral Jellicoe, told me: und socful background help. "The problem of 1022, when
M. Lacosie's refusal to gtvo facilities for investigation on the spot to a group of M. Mendes- Face's Radical deputy friends beenuse it would, in the eyes of the settlers, be in piece of pro-
vocation" has only confirmed the
their
Opposition in Paris in tions would be possible is further view that a stato where negotia. oft than ever, and that extre mists on both sides are now in control of the situation.
Yet M. Raymond Aron,,one thinkers in France, has
the most lucid and courageous
comic
of
put categorically la favour of Certainly the section
at independence for the Algerians opinion
in his latest book "Hope which insists on Army remaining until the rebels Fear of the Century". are finally crushed is t the
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THE SAD STORY BEHIND THE ROMANCE OF TODAY'S GIRL IN THE NEWS
PRINCESS MARGARETHA
AND HER MOTHER. The Princess worked in a child dinle," asie-Nas Even learnt how to make her anon plothes.
A PRINCESS
THE trouble with letting a
princess off the leash is
that you can never be cer- tain whom she may want to marry.
Which is the nub-and the moral of the sad tale of Mar- garetha of Sweden, the
•
princess who tasted life la
London's suburbs and is now living to regret it.
in
the
What happened suburbs is the oldest story in the world. But one that must not happen to a princess....
She fell in love.
M
Strong-willed
MARGARETHA, 22, tall, with the carriage of a Queen, came to stay in the Hamp stead home of business Mr Desmond Boyle, and Swedish-born wife.
mun Itis
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not...
should
FALL IN LOVE IN THE SUBURBS
by
Paul Tanfield
Linos,
princess--in the suburbs,
ImCur
Murgarriba dressed up as Little
Red Riding Hood.
It would have been so easy
if she had been just another pretty girl from the suburbs
The enlightened. ultra- democratic loyal House of Sweden reacted in precisely the Some Way. that great-great- grandmother Queen Victorle would have done,
It's odd
not rare
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So there were the parties. Carina was a great socialite, THEY raised an eyebrow, and at people. In sald darkly; stacks
"We are not the night clubs of Mayfair they amused," often danced
dawn.
Which is odd, because morga-? Margaretha was an expert of naile marriages aro the Thumbu,
unong members of the Swedish Then, one night, she met a Royal Family. There have been
young man with fair, wavy four in recent years.
King
slim
Gustav
princess is descended in both hair at the Cascaova club. They In 1034 Priace Sigvard,
he sat grandson of danced together, and Her mother, Princess Sibylla, his nam was Robin Douglas renounced his righis after hi was descended from the Queen's Home, that he youngest som Leopold, Duke of nephew of the
was 25, and marriage to the daughter of a Earl of Home, Berlin business man, Albany.
in the House of Lords.
He father, Prince Gustar who is leader of the Tory Party Adolph, diled crash in 1947, was the DOU
· mir
How it began
Peter companion; the Boyle Princess Margaret of Connaught, HE was an advertising agent, pretty ex-debutanic doughter Ho mado Suro that the. But he liked the bright lights
children
of him daughters. 100, Therefore, at night he
Carina.
A year later Prince Lennart, another, grandchild of King Gustav, renounced his rights to
holm chartered accountant, k
The end?
The Swedish Embassy would Margaretha, Birgitta (20), played the planto to cocktail N 1037 Prince Charles, have taken her under their Desiree (18), and Christina crowds at London's Berkeley wing if they had had half
10 how
(13) should be as modem and Hal
enlightened as posible.
she lounge, France,
For
weeks
slip away.
nephew of King Gustav. abandoned his rights by marry- romance ing. Countess Elsa von Hooch, sho mother of three children by a from previous, marriagu,
chatice,
But Sweden's Princess So after Imming to make her began. Margaret 1. 迩 venturesome, own clothes in Sweden, travell would strong-willed_youngster, muking ing Incognito to s Norwegian Hampstead and listen to Robin In 1943 Prince Kari Johann, the most of her Royal Family's ski-cump
"Miss Mimal," strumming in the cocktail grandson of King · Gustav, re- hard-won democratisation, who “Andhing" in
nounced his rights by marrying cheristico nothing more than decided to take a job in the They danced together, at the o Stockholm journalist.
·her independence, se
therapy dopastromat of Middie Duke of Kenty 21st birthday I wonder it, üfter Mall, we Her full names aro Maze mox Ilowpital
ball at Coppins,” Carina wala have heard the last of the love guntha Desiree Victoria, the The Idan: to learn. English, friend of the Duke's and so way that began for the princess in- last, of course," after" Queen But all work and no play. Robin. They danced again at the suburbs of London. Victoria,
the malcea a dull-even for the Nutwory Rhyma Hall when
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