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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1950.

WHY THE ARMY SHOULD APPEAL AS A CAREER

Why is the British Army the life of the married officer| nowadays not considered a ly eased, though it is clear that will in the near future be great. good career? During the past until the national situation Im- three years I have put that proves no major increases in pay question to parents, headmas will be given by the Government. ters and boys from the Mid-shows signs of dropping.

Tho resignation rate already lands to the North of Scotland. From all of them I kept get agreed to help those who cannot The War Department has now ting the same answers.

This unanimity is significant, and I propose to examine these

answers one by one, as I believe that only by overcoming these common objections can we hope to solve the problem of the grave shortage of suitable" candidates for commissions.

(1) The Army no longer offera attractive rewards to the ruc- cessful.

has

(B) Although on Army career) In August 233 cadets entered is now open to all; and Sand- | the Academy. 120 from schools hurst is free, the majority of and 167 from the Army. In this boys from the grammar and month the schools entry has gone

Unlike America, Britain secondary schools leave at 18, up to 210, with 150 from the said no to the idea of having a and headmasters are notepre- | Army, This rise of over 80 in permanent Jap trade mission in pared to advise begs to stay on the entry from the schools is a the country. to the Army Entrance Examina- sign that an Army career be- This tion because of the Hak of their ginning to be more popular. The Brilish no-how. * not passing the Regular Com-high standard has been maintain- missions Board.

ed throughout. be given quarters by paying part in itself has been a considerable or all of rent charges. This step This point presents a dimeult Standards are high, relief. Married quarters are bo- and I agree that it is dimeult for

problem.

By General Sir Philip Christison

can be described

A hawker complained to the authorities that a rival of his was But we still want more, and we foisting quantities of bad fruit on need to attract a reasonable pro- to the public. When they inves- portion of the best brains to the tigated they found it wasn't true Army. With this end in vlow-just a case of sour grapes. the Army Council-are-spreading their not still wider,

and have decided to offer 100 universitý commissions annually with salt- able ante-dates...

Round. In otroles. No doubt it's all right- for Japan to send 2,000 bicycles to Formosa, but what, I want to know is, will' it got the Nation- alists anywhere? ...

Myrtle Boys a sincere tilend is }

one who says nasty thing to your face, instead of saying them behind your back.

Before the war 80 university commissions were offered annual- ly, and many officers, -reaching

"1.see the Nats-sro alii-trying- general's rank came from. the This unfortunately is true. In ing bulit in most military sta- headmasters to advise boys to universities, almost entirely Ox- to sell any and every asset, the latest being a fleet of freighters. Clebure of Ove, or more years piete. Shortly they will be fur- trance Examination.

1808 8 maler-peneral might have-tions, and many are now come sit on and take the Army En- ford and Cambridge. It is hoped us time how we can expect to

hy 1938 in Taipeix" and retire in the late 50s on anished. A contributory widows

steady flow from all the talver-hear of some wily" maximum retired pay of £700

selling a passing American the pension scheme is also under The risk of failure at the Re-sllies into the Technical

Corps, year. Tax was negligible.

By preparation.

gular Commissions Board is too but conditions must be made at Great Wall or maybe the Temple 1919 this retired pay had been increased

great. The Army Council has tractive enough and, at the first of Heaven. to £1,000, but ofter (4) The prestige of an officer ¦ Issued a standing Invitation to opportunity that offers for a jus- another 30 years, in spite of the is not what it was.

headmasters to visit the Board tiñable rise in personal incomes, and see it at work, and a number the anomalies increase in the cost of living and

to which I have It is true that after the war the have done so. It is obviously at referred should be rectified. vastly higher taxation, the retired

only £100. prestige of the officer fell. Ho great help to see the Board in pay Moreaver, as the result of earlier was forced to wear battle-dress, action and get an idea of stand- We shall probably always get promotion and a normal tenure his quarters were woefully in- ards. But not all can visit the about one-third of our require- of only three years, he finds him- adequate and scantily furnished Board, and some scheme of selec-ments from the self retired in the early 50s. The with wartime scales. The Army ted boys passing the Board at 10 up with the Army by tradition. ward of success has in fact so Council has shown itself deler may be the answer. An answer We shall also get another third depreciated that no parent or mined to raise his prestige. Such must be found.

under present conditions. headmaster any longer considers, steps can be taken without cost

an Incentive to attract the best are being take the peaked cap, sures taken, and the great success that is so important. The mate- of As the result of recent mea It is recruiting the last third service dress, the peaked cap,| brains.

and the restoration of sword all of the post-war Sandhurst course, rial is there, but it is widely sent- (2) There is an even chance have an effect, while the recon- the situation is beginning to fm-tered, and incentives are needed of having to find another job ini ditioning of quarters and their prove. Resignations show a to attract the best of a class for proceeding sharp drop, and the intake to whom formerly the career of an

Sandhurst is starting to rise, officer was not possible.

bas

gone up

The withdrawal of Western power from Asia does not by any means signify the end of Western influence. So tremendous an impact of a totally new set of ideas, in- stitutions, and methods will not disappear without trace. Indeed, nothing in the history of the peoples of this Continent has been so all-pervasive as the influences brought from the West. Some of them will make a permanent mark, and in India perhaps, the free in- stitutions

of usages Parliamentary democracy and the principles of English Regular Army means that few jurisprudence will long out-officers can hope to reach the highest ranks. The problem of live the vast changes of which resettlement for those who have this generation is now wit-to retire in the 40s is therefore acute. It is fair to say that the alive to Army Councli is fully the situation, and mention should here be made of the special voca- tlonal and business courses which have this year been instituted.

ness,

and

the 40s,

The relatively small size of the

refurnishing apace.

These courses are excellent and

arc

families bound

Turkish housewife is free-- `but not from mother-in-law:

Three women their husbands.

were discussing --

The first declared: "In all the my years we've been married,

husband and I have never once had a harsh word."

The second woman sighed: "1 Then the third woman said, why don't you? She did."

wish I could say that."

She was a plumber's daughter, and every time a sailor whistled after her, her cheeks flushed.

and

Smith was proud of his golf,.

Fis day brought mother-in-law along to watch him."

"I'm particularly anxious to make a long drive Just now," he sald to a friend. "There's my

over there mother-in-law

and

H

"Don't be a fool," said

the

other. "You'll never hit her at that distance."

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"Life was just a big desert to me until I met you."

The Judical Committee of the Privy Council in London has heard its last appeal from the Courts of what was the

The two boys attend a Govern- Indian Empire. Though no will go some way to help to place ly with a

Life in Istanbul begins ear-jare bread, olive oil, white beans,||

ment elementary school. Parliament is in being at pre-officers

clatter of shop olives, goat's cheese, and rice, in clvil líc. There

Meat is too expensive to permit Feride and Mehmet seldom go sent, the Committee is em- should, however, be certain Gov- shutters being pulled up with

Sometimes on al powered by Statute to sit for ernment appointments reserved a rush. Workers hurry by more than a once-monthly pur-cut together.

tram, bus and ferry boat, or chuse of the cheapest cuts, to public holiday the whole family boat across the judicial business, and last specifically for ex-officers. week formal farewells were

by the world's shortest Un-make a thick soup. Only the less takes the ferry

expensive fish, caught practically Bosphorus to the Asiatle side to spoken between representa-

derground to their daily on her doorstep, finds its way picnic in an open-air cafe, drink and listen to a work.

Into her shopping basket. Tea mineral water, tives of the King's justice and

and coffee are luxuries. Ferida loudspeaker blaring out Turkish that her husband was always Feride 'Alakir, wife of an Is- brews her tea leaves again and music:-.

thrown tanbul bus driver, must be up at again before they are sunrise, at the first call of the away. muezzin, to prepare breakfast for

Too apparent

(3) The difficulties of mar- ried life in the Army are ali too apparent.

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Bare rooms:

in a

the penetrating

street cries of the Istanbul "bar-

"So that's why you dance like a camel."

A woman complained in court pulling the wool over her ayes.

Having first spun yarn, of

Occasionally Mehmet will go course, out with his friends to drink a "raki" (an aniseed drink),

has

Emancipated

striking

ed with astub and soap, she With the ability to earn her Feride carries the family laundry to the own.. living something busements Here: she

itson never had she intends to come The floors are covered with an old-fashioned board wringing time working after her marriage. carpets, not the kind we generally it out with her strong hands. Then and looks forward to fliving not on her on the top Epor of an old house recognise as Turkish, but attract is hung out to dry

modern comforts,

of the Government of the Indian Republic. It is not the sort of thing to make big

The difficulties of married life headlines in the papers, but in the Army have in recent years her family. This is a simple meal A typical feature of Istanbul it was an event neither with led to many resignations. The of olives or haricot beans in olive life is balcony shopping." When

tieurs bread is dipped, Feride out drama, nor an under-cur-number was becoming disturb-all into which

Ingly high-510 in 1947, 785 In

some cheese and tea. rent of emotion. In this

1948 and the rate carlier this year domain of high jurisprudence, was higher still. The morale of Breakfast quickly over, Ferido

Life for Feride, who is now 40, relations between

officer English the married

has been packs up a midday meal

witnessed many changes. The Kemal Ataturk Revolution of Judges and Indian litigants lowered by the taxation of his three-tiered metal container for

1023 emancipated her EDX 80 and counsel have always been duced in 1948. Many have fall- her husband, has his lunch in the

allowances, an innovation intro her two schoolboy sons, Mehmet By ROBIN HOWE

that, on paper fat least, the en- most cordial. The Indianed to make ends meet financially, bus canteen, while Selva her 17-

joys more freedom than her Ambassador, Mr. Krishna and banks in garrison towns are year-old daughter, who is a sea-

European sisters. In reality,

how daily asked to grant overdrafts. mstress, will eat at the house Menon, said that through two Since the

ever, she still plays second fiddia war, also,

to her husband and her mother- the officer where she is working. centuries of association, has lost many of those small con

row boy" who picks his way in-law. She wears an adaption of a black cloth "nothing has impressed the cessions which compensated him The family having left, Foride along the cobbled streets leading the fold charshat,

mule, she scarf that securely covers her people of India more than the for his life of discipline and ser- and her mother-in-law have the his heavily-laden

vice. He still feels it unfair that flat to themselves. Like mogt rushes to her balcony. In piercing head and shoulders, leaving her high sense of detachment, in- in many stations abroad Service Turkish housewives of her age, toner she haggles with him 3. face exposed, the first step after -dependence -and-impartiality officers alone-of Government-ser-Feride does not go to work and feet below. The price - settled, banishing (the vell.

on both sides. which have invariably gov.vants pay home rates of tax on the business of keeping her three honour satisfled

the emoluments.

contrast, Selva roomed home on the top noor of sie lowers a cord with a basket In erned the deliberations of the

a shaphy wooden house is not attached to it containing monor, wears modern clothes, her hair Privy Council."

Energetic steps are, however,

arduous.

and then draws up her fruit or fles loose, and her dresses aro Lord Jowitt, in acknowled, being taken to deal with this

vegetables.

copied from the latest foreign Washing-up la' cut to a mini-

magazines. If she has her way ging this generous compli- problem, and I am confident that

mum, for Turks use little croc fost Turkish houses have aj and she probably will-her dally ment, observed that many of

communal wash-house which in life will be much freer and more the appeals had come froming the decision of any of the kery.

allotted to each tenant one day of varied than her mother's is. **. the humblest people in the King's Coutts beyond the sea.

week, Feride nas Tuesday, A Appeals from. India there- humblest villages and it was a source of great satisfaction to fore began to be referred for "the Committee that it should the Council's advice very soon be considered in India that after the first English Courts their duty to the people had were established in the East been so well carried out. India Company's territories in tive, hand-woven "kilims made balcony and from a triangular shared with her in-laws but in a Henceforth, the two systems Madras, Bengal, and Bombay in Anatolle. These she briskly clothes-line stretched out. from small flat in a modern block with

sweeps with a short straw broom. her kitchen window. of law and the two legal pro in 1728. Final jurisdiction in A quick dust round, and most of Later she irons it with a large fessions will go their several Indian cases was formally as the general housework for the clumsy Iron packed light with years time, will be vastly differ-

Her story, to, be told in 10) ways; but the service of signed to the present Judicial day is done.

burning charcoal. This the has eat, and, with true Eastern philo- justice is an international Committee, in 1833. Since Turkish homes are bare of to keep swinging to fans the sophy, Feride muses. "May Allah brotherhood and the ties then it has heard appeals aris furniture, and Faride's is no ex- charcoal to red heat. woven between men who ing out of the laws of all ceptlog In the parents' bedroom and have collaborated so long and communities in India. It has are a large fron bedstead

tures wicker chairs. Thøjr. trea=|": so harmoniously will not be fostered the single legal pro-sures are kept in a gaudity-

chest easily dissolved.

cession by which the jurispru-coloured wooden

which As "The Times" of London dence of the new Republic has brought Feride's trousseau A Once, every three weeks Ferida points out, the Appellate to be worked out, and it is plain deal cupboard completes the attends the "Haman," or Turkish

furniture.

bath. She spends the whole day Jurisdiction of the Privy probable that the ideas con

here, gossiping with her friends Counell derives from the very cerning the nature and another room similarly furnished mid-day meal she takes with her, Selva and the two boys share in the steam and the heat. Her ancient and very honourable forcement of justice will be Across the landing lives Mah- and she will sip a cup of Turkish principle of the Common the most enduring memorial met's mother, an autocratic old coffee brought by an attendant. Indy, a habitual smoker like Tu Luxuriously, from time to time Law, which recognises the of the British Raj in India. right of every subject to peti- It is a pity that a body, akin kish women of her generation, she lathers herself with soap, tion the King himself for re- to the Privy Council has not what treats Feride as an in then washes it off with hot water

ferior being Her room retains dress if he believes himself to been created on the Indian some atmosphere of old Turkey: cooped up with a small copper

bowl; have been denied justice in sub-continent, not merely for with a low divan, and many

cushions. the Courts. As far back as Judicial purposes but to pro-

The bath at‚ last over, sio re- the reign of Edward the First, vide a framework which The main room in the dat is the turns home, heavily wrapped up, the King was accustomed in would hold the two new kitchen, with its dain wooden and spends the evening reading Only on these bath such cases to take the advice Dominions, however loosely, cooks and does her daily chores, days and on- Moslem Holidays

table and chairs. Here Feride the Koran of "triers of petitions," who together in these trying and Here the family eat, sit, read tho does the family ever take an in- were appolated at the begin, anxious times. Pariltion, newspapers, and chatters van terest in religious ceremonies. ning of every Parliament, though apparently inevitable,ne comes to double art. Feride's life is not pasy, for sho But since there were always was still a great misfortune. ring on which, all the spoldog is has a constant battle minst the chosen from his Councillors. It runs against the powerful done the high cost of living. Ar the we of a municipal worker" (all trans- the jurisdiction soon came to tide of history toward closer There is a small semi-circular post-Is-Stata-rian), she has moing be transferred to the Crown Integration, and it has led not metal sink without a plug or advantages over » other - hounds In-Council Instead of the to amity but to increasing dis- Turks never wash | althor them- wives.-SUN Crown-in-Parliament. For cord, until today the whole selves or utensile in water that in the gro

|not running. The Europeaní velis, 23:Comi, wood, and charcoal are England -it, perished in the Commonwealth Clas alarmed.tom of lying. In bain, of Bill was wild to has at raduons, prices, and Constitutional conflict of the Kashmir" seams as far from ter is considered, unhygienic, she" in issued WithⱭ

17th Century, to be eventually solution as replaced by the modern from the pyramid of appoal, with the

but petition to.

Council remai

and

All-day bath

* When Feride lif not working in from: Government the the hours abw, la shopping: There cheaply than if

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20 with her."

"

thought Robinson Was retiring from the office because of loss of memory?"!.

That's right.”

"But I saw him there today." "Yes, he's forgotten all about it."

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