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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947.
BURMA
sits
મ
TN a great house overlooking Empire defence in peace and war. London's once-aristocratic They study the place of the United Nations Organization in the world order, and the responsibilities of the Commonwealth towards it. They debate, political, economic,
Belgrave Square general, at a massive desk set on a large square of red car pet.
Passera-by rarely glance up at his window, anyone who does has a sporting chance of glimp sing a powerful figure, equally recognisable in battledress or lounge suit as General Sir Wil- liam Slim, one-time scourge of the Jap and today Commandant of the senior school of the Bri- tish Empire-the Imperial De- fence College.
This is the man who once said that the reason he liked to visit his fighting troops In the front line was not to raise their morale, but to raise his own!
and
social
industrial problems, που weapons and strategy. Among the visiting lecturers are Cabinet Mini- sters,
Ambassadors, High Com- missioners, Chiris of Services, scientists, Industrialists and trade union leaders. The
to industries al home visits study methods of control such as are applied today in Germany and Austria. There are no students be- low the rank, or equivalent rank. The course Insta a of brigadier.
year.
his
volen
students pay and
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First postwar commandant of the Imperial where the Empire's Defence College senior officers are trained for high command is the man who led the "forgotten" Fourteenth Army to a great triumph of arms: Gonoral Sir William Slim. His visiting lecturers include Cabinet Ministers, Chiefs of Staff and Ambassadors.
TO BELGRAVE SQUARE
By PETER LAWRENCE
child Ives in a couple of
onc rooma.".
MISSES TROOPS NOMETIMES Slim misses the troops. But his sturdy figure has been Бесп of late ut soldiers' in London. He [1] reunions preside at a reunion of 10,000.
the day he walked into a been picked up in such a bad state are very few of them but I do not Fourteenth Army wion
The recalls Now his chances of such con- Albert
broken-down bamboo but and asked, that they could not resist being taken know of a single house that does not Hail
June
troops. But few people prisoner he remarked: "The Jap- entertai Iis job is to. And
has 2nd); "Where is my Madquarters? le tacts are few.
was told. This is it." He then asic- nucse army is the only army which Have houses in India. My wife with train
senior officers of from the fireske loudspeaker. very
I got and really does fight to io lost man and ed, "What forces have
the last round. where
When we say we Britain and the Commonwealth is not necessarily a compliment to a
here are they?" The general to say that he is a good man in the higher strategy.
have killed 100,000 Japs we mean it. "They told me", anys the General. at the misrephone, but when Sum
"I wished they hadn'" But he did That is the number of bodies counted globe of the world on his desk broadensts editors detail somebody
that retreat. He
on the ground." a great job in Slim's to listen. Is no idle ornament.
temporarily stepped the Japanese. Or a
staff
officer he once told a Burma, theatre is no longer
giving his own
Invaluable
story:
"When two divisions were 10 but the world, His students
time to prepare the Indian frontier
suppested are not only soldiers. but sal-
Major General for a stand. Ite was always with cut off in the Arakan I his
Snelling in charge of lors, airmen and civil servants.
his men and saw them back safely. Fourteenth Army administration that a coherent and still Bghting force.
a case of rum should be dropped with each consignment at stores to speed its picking up on the ground. General Snelling replied that he had already included two cases of rum. After that
left him alone," says General Slim,
"This
11
Seated at his big desk
HO
overlook-
he looks the headmaster. removes
that he
forc:s
1% MISTAKES
as
Of the Irrawaddy crossing:
Wo one
was one of the finest achievements of
crossed it not on
Of his Indian troops: "Believe me, and I have fought with them, some of the bravest races in the world aren't white at all." And, again, of courage: "Courage is not merely
Without It virtue; it In the virtue.
there are no other virtues."
"I've never met a man with moral
courage who wouldn't when it was really necessary, face bodily danger. Moral courage is a higher and rarer virtue than physical courage."
COURAGE
"COURAGE
is an expendable quality, if there are continuous
calls on our courage we begin to overdraw. If we go on overdrawin we do bankrup!- we break down."
"Complete cowards are almost non- existent."
to
ing Belgrave Square wise, experienced When he stands and glasses, he Is the generat. His short-clipped moustache is greying THREE SERVICES and his hair 10 getting scanty.
"Worry," he says with a smile.
What
is the background of this THE college is not a new one.
HE was promoted to the command froin HE soldier transplanted was started in 1927 and the Navy, crack
of the 15th Corps and in October and RAF lake it in turp to Burma to Belgravla? From boyhood
1943 took over the Fourteenth Army. provide
commandants. General he was determined to be a soldier. Slim is the eighth commandant and He became an OTC cadel and was Later one of his staff officers wrote
any army. the third general to hold the post. commissioned into the Warwickshire of him. The burden and responsi
at). In bility lay on the shoulders of He is also the first postwar com Regiment (Monty's regiment).
1915 he went to Gallipoli where he mun. It was a burden few men could bridges or on boats, but on brains, mandant (the college was closed in
have borne, and few indeed re- because we cheated the enemy. Our 1030). To this two-year job he has was given a regular commission but tained with the vitality and daring motto has been brought the drive, the Imagination he was wounded
which inition he was wounded spermiently Un which enabled Slim, when the time who help themselves, d helps those and the personality
to launch campaign the
mes add under our breath Because, Fourteenth Army through the war's at. Slim was too keen on the Army
speed of whleittartled by God, no one else does'."
It was not without wisdom that the Of the speed of his army: "There to tra thrt for an answer: only baza arl worst camalgning country.
Government appointed this man he knows just how he got back into the world. His victory will live In
In was the race between the a pattern.
troops command the Imperial Defence Col- Imperial Defence be Running the
He fought in France and military history
overwhelming success it compares closing in on Rangoon from the lege, One of very many good reasons College is no job for a 'dug-out'. It uniform.
advance Iraq-where he won the MC-and
from north and those from the south. We was with
his ability to handle was essential to have a man
other General
then went to India where he became with
Alamein to
made a book on it and I lost a lot branches of the Services. no shackles on his mind.
"My Once Slim
described as u of money,"
officers," he once sald, "have got to Sir Franels de Guingand, Monty's a Gurkha.
Slim took to the Gurkhas and the
know the air side whether they've Inte Chief of Staff, siressed in his
Years later tralldog. He was angry. "Buldogs "Operation Victory that before the Gurkhas took to him. war the Imperial Defence College which he became commander of the are often done is likes to talt, was
the only establishment for Fourteenth Army he picked his or suid. Of his tactics he likes to
outside his but usually in a self deprecatory for high derlies and the guards training those earmarked
little Nepalese style. About the defence of Imphal himself
miss from these was (Slim command.
soldiers, and the senior of them re- he says: "I made two mistakes. I The 17th back once
very pupil Hiere).
fused promotion so that he could didn't
from enough
Tiddim says de Guingand much doubt"
#excl they had "that the syllabus of the Imperial stay with the Generul.
to fight. And could didn't reckon the Japs Defence College before the war was
the supply themselves through quite what was wanted. I'll wager
The second was CIGS is that now Montgomery
he
Sumra hills tracts. will ensure that this defect in the
only half a mistake, zenuse they training of generals is righted."
tried it, and they couldn't. So really There's little doubt that these two,
I made only one-and-a-half mistakes. the two ablest field commanders of
The Japs made a few more. I won". the war (de Guingand's verdict), the two men irst able to strip a problem of its "muckage," have al- ready got together over that syl- Jabuis.
Today General Slim's 61 pupils- one of whom, by the way, is a policeman-are trained to hold high appointments In the structure of
GREAT JOB
PEFORE World War Two the Gen Deral graduated at the Staff Col- lege, and later became commandant of the Senior Officers School near Bombay. In 1939 he was a brigadier and later fought in Eritrea, where he
in Iraq again; he was wounded: against the Vichy French in Syrin- where he won his DSO and in the Ferslan operations.
10th recalled
the
was
After commanding Indian Division he to India to take over the 1st Burm
The General Corps then retreating.
THE POCKET REPUBLIC FACES RUIN
2001
I
Mullen
fetch
was
AN INSECT THE General never underestimated the enemy. Of the Jap he once said: "He is an insect."
When it was found that of 2,000 prisoners only about 300 were able- bodied men the remainder
SAN MARINO CLAIMS WAR
DAMAGE FROM ALLIES
having
.
of ecmplaints thai the British women in India were not doing gut wings on their tunics or not. It' enough for the troops: "The women have done a magnificent job. There
like anying only men with oakleaves' in their buttonholes can climb trees.”
BY THE WAY. by Beachcomber
"No.
I must make an
TN "Lady Gregory's Journals" elephants!
there is a story of a famous example of you." "Fang," said the pianist paying a visit to Ireland. Maser, "we must get you another elephant." "A camel might be leas He could not get a cabin in the caule," retorted the student satiri boat until he said that he was going cally. to Ireland to play. He got the cabin at once, and was most
In The Strabismus plan'
pressed by the Conour thus paid to inusie. Later he discovered that
the purper thought he was a member DR STRABISMUS (Whom God of an English football team on its way to play In Ireland,
Murder of an elephant (IX)
Preserve) of Utrecht has sub- miited to the Ministry of Transport his No-Way trafic plan. The pith of the scheme is that every street in Louden would be numbered. On ai
be allowed to travel in
ternate
LIGHT crestfallen dons, fined traille would at alternate hours, no EIG
up before Malpractice, confessed either direc lan. But work na by that the monotony of their diet had even numbers and odd numbers, all driven them lo plan to kill Bingo, traffe would be allowed to travel in Mr Walver had led the animal into both directions on alternate days-at- un ambush and after a swig of poison
nalernate hours. To take the beast had fallen to the ground example: A car proceeding from dend. "My rations are monotonous, Oxford-street to Barking on a Wed.
said Fang,
"but I do not kill nesday would not be allowed to go and British Embassies and ple workmen-Marino and Leo-the and
Malpractice, ed the Master.
tice, horror in the world-San Marino, in Allied representatives at the Vuti- original settlement, which centred eat dons," "Bad logic," muiter- by streets in the even numbers cate- round the 2,250 foot peak of Montes.ruck, said: This is worse than one direction 30, and then only in Italy, founded 1,800 years ago-is can.
Included in the bill are claims for Titano, today numbers some 18,000 murder, You slaughtered an animal so on. on the threshold of financial" ruln
out informing unless the Allles agree to pay a bill damage allegedly sustained through inhabitants, Ilving for the most part for food without
of San for war damage estimated at the the occupation of the Republic by in the three main towns
phant away, you would have com- equivalent of £2,500,000, put for the British 8th Army from Septem- Maring, Borgo Maggiore and Serra-Ministry. Had you given bits of cle- Colchester native's
mitted an even more serious offence, ward by the San Marino authorities. ber 21 to October 20, 1944,
The Government of San Marino
As it Overlooking the shores of
that the maintains Adriatle, some 12 miles from
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Italian town of Rimini, the tiny incapable of meeting the requests of sovereign Grand Council of 60 mentions shinfringed the regula- THE new Post Office Tekphopt
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three
The republic is governed by
I shall make my report to
Directory, containing nothing but bers, with legislative and administra-
"Cannot the whole wrong numbers, is almost ready. It Ministry citizens who suffered
tive powers, elected for six years by episode be hushed up?" asked the is felt that if a subscriber can be republic is now passing through the the
universal suffrage.
Master. Malpractice shot a look of given a wrong number with as little gravest financial crisis since it was through Allied action and who
pressing their claims for repara- founded in the year 300 A.D.
"This," he said, delay as possible he will be more in- This Grand Council la turn elects loathing at him. gons.
Iwa
Captains-Regent, who have is no mere case of murder, Suppose clined to walt pallently for the right The Republic's claims, which have
The Government claims, despite executive power, These Captains everyone started killing, and caling number, been laid before the Allied authori ties and the United States and the suppression of the Republic' are clected every Bix months and
by the Italian Fascist British representatives to the Holy Ilberties
are re-eligible only every See by Dr Mario Morescalchi, regime; that the republic was never
years. Consul-general of San Marino in completely overthrown as an inde Rome, are based on the destruction pendent state, and maintained rigid caused by an Allled air raid on June neutrality in the war. 20, 1944.
In fact, San Marino declared war During this rald, the San Marino on Germany in 1014 and authorities say, extensive damage signed any peace document in 1018 was done to the Republic's capital or after. She was still at war whether by this they referred to the of the same name, and at least 85 with Germany in 1930 and can al- Germans or the British 8th Army,
the citizens were killed and many others most claim to be one of the first, it both of whom entered wounded.
not the very first, of the Allies of pat
Marino's
's pencetul existence is The Allies, according to reports, World War Two. repiled to the claim by maintaining Whether or not the Allies will emphasised by the fact that the Jast is war in which the republle took part, that the Germans were using San meet San Marino's claim, it
To with fully recognised military forma. little Marino railway stations a dump fairly obvious that the
war.
never
It is one of the little republic's proudest boasts that never until the Inst war had her boundaries been violated by invading armies.
The authorities would not say
Rom
of
for their munitions and that the public. cannot long continue to tions, was in 1453, when they joined rald was a regrettable necessity of surve as an independent state forces with the Dukes of Montefeltro,
within Italy. It is equally obvious Lords of the Umbrian district Later, it is claimed, the Allies that, realising that no possible ald Urbino, against the great Malatere admitted in a letter that there was can be forthcoming from the Italian family, the Dukes of Rimini. not much evidence to sustain the Government, .the Son Marino When Napoleon occupied Italy, he alleged presence of German am- authorities have turned to the Allies halted at the frontiers of San munition in the railway station, to obtain whatever help they can Marino. and no other bombings took place. muster in that quarter.
Details of the damage were cop- Covering some 32 square miles, tained in a large volume presented San Marino has a gallant history, of by the San Marino Government to quiet, progressive and peaceful rule the Allied Commission in Rome in for the 1,000 years of her existence. April 1945, as well as to the Ameri- Founded in 300 A.D. by two sim-
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