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The biggest
Definition of perfect
manners
by
E. M. DELAFIELD
A
YOUNG man, then in his into twenties,
once lamented to me that his mother-
a widow-had done a thoroughly bad day's work in bringing him up to a standard known to her- self and her friends as "having perfect manners."
Ile complained, probably with absolute truth, that the perfect manners had caused him to be losthed and despised by all his contemporaries from his prep. school days onwards, and that it had cost him a great deal of trouble to rid him- self of his superfluous politeness in a world in which plainly no demand whatsoever existed for "perfect manners."
Actually, what I think he really meant waG that his mother had brought him up to the for- mulas and small social graces of her own early youth and that they were just about as much in place as might have been the velvet sults and long ringlets of Little Lord Fauntleroy carried on into the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck era,
We come across some strange examples of bad manners nowa- days.
change in the Army since 1914
THE
HE British "Tommy" has been remodelled into a superman. Foot-slogging is finished. Mr. Atkins, ex- pert gunner, mechanic, and soldier combined, will drive into the fray.
-by-
Lieut.-Col. T. A. LOWE,
Daily Mail Services Correspondent
and
1
The young man of 20 who wrote a letter to his future father-in-law and addressed him as "Dear Robinson" was lacking in courtesy, probably through shicer ignorance.
So was the girl who, appar- ently bored by my conversation when her mother brought her to my house for tea, took up a book and read it until it was time to
go.
Heard At Lord's
ON
A
N the other hand, I was
good deal impressed by a conversation that I heard not very long ago at Lord's.
Two people were sitting exactly
was easy to guess that one was an elderly man and the other a very young girl.
The man had a great deal to say,
"We used to have great times at remember, he said. Ranelagh, I
The thing to do in those days was Henley Regatta, don't-chu-know."
And each time the other voice re-
fight effect of being deeply interest-.
...Arife Shaw's Oreli,
COMMAND of the seas has .Tommy Dorsey's Orch.
always been essential to the Henny Goodman's Orch.
Paul Whileman's Orch. safety of Great Britain. It is none the less so to-day. If our
Each vehicle has one Bren very word "infantry" is derived .Benny Berigan's Orch. Army and Air Force proved in-
The present remodelling of vincible, a war in which we were the infantry battalion, the big-un, and its armour is to enable from the Latin infans, meaning
it to cross bullet-swept areas infant, which explains why. engaged would still be lost if the gest change in the Army since and carry its crew into action. The varlet or follower of
1914, will provide a superior The crew of three men, when enemy could close car ports.
By training they have reached a covered mounted lord was called a boy, behind me. I couldn't see them, but fighting machine. is the Royal Navy strong the foot soldier to drive carriers, position, dismount and select and he "trod privily after his to use light machine-guns as suitable ground from which to master.". Our wily varlets, the modern infantry, hope to follow *** | enough now to be our
well as his rille, to fire mortars, use their weapons.
the heavy tanks in the same shield? Let us examine some and to ride in trucks, we are It is easy to see how useful way, and rather expect that their and it was all about some blissful facts and figures. They are very converting the carefree, irre- this carrier platoon would be in lordships in the land cruisers period that he referred to as "the old It can protect will collect a goodly share of the way, way back into the early nine- days," and that apparently went sponsible "Tommy" into a super- a modern war. soldier.
riflemen who are fighting their dirty work before the infantry-teen-hundreds. When brains and brawn are way forward. It opens up new men's turn comes.
The tactical handling of the evenly distributed, the result possibilities. The attack of an will be the ideal infantryman, infantry battalion may become remodelled battalion has changed
thing of manoeuvre whose image must live in the
in every way. The responsibili- minds of the Army Council, imagination instead of a process ties of the CO. have increased, otherwise they would not con- of disaster, as so often happen and therefore we must expect at leastly, giving exnetly the tinue to spend vast sums on his ed on the Somme and at Pas higher standard of intellectual ed in reminiscences that were really
chendaele during the Great War, when men dreaded service attainment from infantry officers so utterly pointless in
than in the past. Their conviction is that the in the doomed battalions of the infantry soldier of the future "P.B.I."
New weapons will only give will be neither a "tough guy"
The new mobility which has security to troops when they nor a "softie," but a hard-work-
have obtained the mastery of The Home Fleet, which is bying artisan, a skilled craftsman, been created for infantry by them, but the remodelled batta- turn round and take a look, I saw
mechanised vehicles may enable lion has already begun a renals- that the gentleman far the most powerful fighting and a self-respecting citizen.
the soldier to return to the sance which may give us com- elderly than I had supposed and fleet in existence, is at its station
More Striking Power
individualism of the light infan- plete superiority over massed singularly devoid of the charma 56
often seen in the elderly: that of recruit must still, of try in the days of the Peninsular armies of conscripts, who cannot in the North Sea, and other
distinguished appearance. THE
hope to be in the same class, if
The girl was 20 at the very most: British squadrons patrol all the course, receive sound in- War.
Alruction in his rifle, which is
completely sophisticated to look at, It was then Britain's distinc- only because of the material re-
beautifully dressed and made
up. quired. now considered as a weapon for tion to produce something new,
and with her eyes fixed on the cricket 35lb. Pack his personal protection.
a corps d'elite of skirmishers
pitch, so that one felt certain really will not spend nearly so much who could use their brains as
lo attend to, rather than anybody's irrelevant conversation.
I thought, and still think, that she and shown the truest kind of good manners in being so nice to her tire- a rulous old escort—even though her vocabulary was slipshod.
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He
stead, he must become wedded
the
themselves
that even a contemporary must have found them dreary. Besides, they nothing to do with the cricket inatch were very long-drawn-out, and had that was going on
When I eventually contrived
to
Was even more
"Miss Er"
ENUINE politeness, which has its origin in consideration
demand for it.
of self-control, has little to do with formulas, and less still with social graces and there will always be a Naturally one has one's personal prejudices and preferences. To be shaken hands with by someone who at the same time looks away from you is a minor discourtesy that
I
The Navy List for July-the last one, in peace time form, that time with it on the barrack well as their weapons, and who the British Army the term was the game that she had wanted
"light infantryman" is as square or on the ranges in for that reason, surpassed the applicable to-day as it was in the Peninsular War. No longer in to his Bren gun, upon which all infantry of other armies.
The strength in man-power of the foot soldier expected to run with bayonet, future tactics will be based.
Territorial Army Field march or In the Great War the infantry Force, entirely exclusive of the haversack, water-bottle, and enstangy and occasionally blasphemous. | principal British warships. They became more helpless as well-
seven Anti-Aircraft divisions trenching tool jangling round include 12 battleships, 3 battle-pons became more powerful, and and the Coast Defence units, is
his thighs. for a time nearly all movement 295,000. This week nearly 150,- Instead, he wears a narrow GE cruisers, 59 other cruisers, 4
was stopped. The advent of the 000 men are out in training, belt and two braces on which for other people and in the exercise anti-aircraft ships, 9 aircraft- Bren gun is likely to restore the learning how to work in re- pouches for ammunition are carriera, 18 flotilla leaders, 161 balance and re-establish the modelled battalions."
carried in front. On his back, offensive power of the foot-
The whole of this force is in the sensible manner of the destroyers, and 58 submarines. soldier.
The remodelled infantry bat- the Regular Army in any part
available for association with hiker's pack, he carries his haversack, with water-bottle, If minor warships, such as mine- layers and gunboats, be added, talion consists of an HQ. com- of the world, should necessity mess-tin, knife, fork, and spoon,
pany, and four other companies, the grand total rises to 469, cach of three platoons of three arise, and it is being provided and a warm cardigan Jersey, all
always find myself resenting inside. The total weight of the with modern weapons and equip- sections. The rifle strength is, ment on exactly the same scale, load complete is 95lb.
though it were a major one. To this mighty force we are therefore, less by one platoon
And I sympathised heartily with Clad in this fashion, he can the young guest staying in my house The plan is not yet complete, now adding more than one new per company than before, but
against this the Commanding but meanwhile, to show what can jump into armoured vehicles or whom I took out to tea with a neigh- bour, when she afterwards sald pite- warship every week. With the Officer has a vastly increased be accomplished or improvised, trucks without discomfort, and ously that she wouldn't have minded the 2nd London Infantry Brigade if he goes on parade with oil-being called nothing at all, but that building programme of 1939 fire strength under his hand. already well under way, Britain's His 50 Bren guns, his mortar (TA) moved out of London to stains on his clothes he is not she did rather object to being ad-
column of 460 vehicles.
as something which has escaped as "Miss Err
And few things are more madden- shipyards are engaged in the platoon, his carrier platoon, and camp at Burley in a mechanised regarded by the sergeant-major dressed on three separate occasions
from a cheese. his pioneer platoon, are all new
Ing than to be badgered by some The move was carried out course of this year in building acquisitions and provide him
New brooms sweep clean in well-meaning friend on the subject with tremendous hitting power. without a hitch, and Sir. Malcolm the Army at first. In time the one private far
"But why 'can't you come ta- 200 warships, including nine His 25 trucks ensure mobility. Campbell, as Assistant Provost bristles become less penetrating morrow?"
"I'm afraid I'm already booked." The personnel of the carrier Marshal, with a large force of
"Where?";" ( accustomed grooves, but in this
"I have to go to see an old friend It is a very great Navy, a very platoon consists of one officer motor-cyclists at his disposal, and the dust settles down in its
case-thanks to the action of at Brighton."
totalitarian. States-the efficient Navy, a supreme Navy.and 29 other ranks," and they controlled the traffic en route. travel in ten small, beetle-like To Follow The Tanks
broom has been exchanged for Ita Air Service is paramount; vehicles, pictured above, with balone among navies it has the tractor wheels and armoured BRITISH infantrymen have al- a vacuum cleaner, and the pat- bodies. Their role is entirely ways managed to adapt torn on the carpet is at last re-
themselves to situations. The vealed. secret of submarine destruction. different from the tank.
GARMENTS IN THEIR NEW SALE PREMISES battleships.
at CHINA BUILDING (opp. Hongkong Hotel)
the
་
It
DS
anyone 1 know? Why
shouldn't we go together? I should enjoy the trip."
There is only one way of dealing with this type of bad manners, and that is to be absolutely brutal.
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