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By Peter Lovegrove

Everest

for the job," of the Crown and their re- tilidant authority, said a lender writer when quirements, and their in-

He was a fearless regimentat He was a 24-year-old captain are masters of the North African the appointment of Field triente dovetailing with soldier during four years of at the time of this award the shores." Marshal

Viscount those of the fighting ser- trench warfore

"We had produced in Tunisia”, on the Westem became a dicutenant-colonel in Front in World War One. He 1017). and what distinguished he wrote in his despatch, " new Alexander of Tunis, KG, vices of the Allied Powers.

the top" 30 times, this young officer, of athletic instrument of victory in the form This office was created in went "over GCB, GCMG, CSI, DSO,

the build was wounded twice, won

and accomplishments, of close collaboration between the previous, Legion of Honour on the Marne, who had a way of look the Allies, a principle which was MC, as the new Minister of 1947, and

holders

were Mr A. V., the MC at Loos, and the DSO ing half-enquling, huge but a war-winning factor." The to be not only, a a battle-winning Defence, was announced,

Alexander (now

Somune Lord' during the

offensive,

when talking, whose Alexander), Mr E. Shinwell when he was "the soul of the w: direct and to the point credit for this went in a targe Eisenhower, atlask". Throughout the day is very much to the point at timest degree to General

"Alex" led forward not only his own was his power of working out but

maintained and and Mr Churchill himself.

Field-Marshal Alexander has men tax mon of all regiments, and leading on attack, and his strengthened it when from the been the man for many difficult and held the trenches gained

understanding of men.

forgetten ruins of old Carthage, CALCULATORS said of him Rudyard Kipling. jahrenze he was gazetted serend spite of heavy machine-gun fire."

that he had the gift of handling the mea

"Alex," as he was affec- tionately known to count less thousands of Service- men during World War Two, takes up his new role

CARMEL MYERS, whom thousands remember as a silent-days film star, writes a moving book, which is providing inspiration and philosophy FOR THOSE DEPRESSED AND LOW IN SPIRIT. She calls her story-

OU do not expect to look umont the world of film stars for a philosophy of living. Too often there is an impression that theirs is a tinsel world where the depths of human emotion-

like the skin-deep

around them- beauty are 310 thicker than a celluloid film.

But Carniel Myers- 50 years old now and

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he went on to lead the polyglot soldiers of the Allied Armies

on the lines to which from Licanla to the enals of Shoy most readily responded. At Venice and the foothills of the the worst crises he was acth in- Alpz. ventive and costal and, on such Occasions

as they all

strave together in the Gates of the Death, would samchow contrive

ad

GENERALSHIP

The Italian campaign had

never

to dicas the affair 413 high been designed as a holding at- comedy,

tick on a major scale, but as Morcover, when the blame for Eric Linklater has said: "The some insident. of battle or Gumans were never allowed to

Iris, he fatigue was

confessed sabile down, they were Look It 11500 his own given time to complete the forti- shoulders in the presence of disation of their successive lors pli. Constquently his subor- of defence; and in the circum- sunces of the war in Italy this was a very remarkable feat..... General Alexander never had a superilulty of troops with which to break through the barriers by the sheer weight of his. - task. For much of the time his rescurces were scanty, and re- servas coult only be found by

The Don't Think Club was likedinates loved him even when he fell upon them being for an Alcoholics

Anonymous for their shortcomings; and his met people who had, not liquor, but were all his own.” tragedy in their lives. Even- tually they began to feel more, certain of themselves again.

OPPORTUNITY

They could look back tenderly In 1910, he was in Poland and but not fcct themselves Latvia, commanding not British caught in the emotion of self-but German and Lettish Land- pity. They could safely disband wehr in Baltic operations, which the club, for it had served its gave him a unique opportunity

of studying the character purpose.

German troops at close quarters, But they passed on the idea and fourning Russian in which for every day, as an inevitable he later pasted an interpreter's and complex part of human ex-examination. By 1034, he was a Brigade on India' perlence, suffering crosses the leading threshold of a home. And the Northwest Frontier, sad thrze

later years

was Q11e Don't Think Clubs grew up again

small groups of about half a the youngest to reach the tank-

of major general in modern dozen people.

times.

earguard She

With her red hair and #ereen- green eyes, hor vamp allure, she was R

First, she decided that she like leading lady for men

must escape from the familiar Douglas Fairbanks, Ramon surroundings that reminded her Novarro, Adolphe Menjou, every day of her loss. and John Barrymore. She uprooted herself therefore, from was a star in 30 to 40 films Hollywood and moved with her

three children to New York. from D. W. Griffith's shorts in 1916 to the fabulous "Ben Hur" of 1927.

of

As in World War One, he was Is this kind of escapism, this sliding and pressing down of one of the rst to land in France in 1939, and he was the init to emotion, really leave Anwanted

affo: cermmanding dearable? Psychologists heartily

.at Dunkirk, He drove of any philosophy

changed into spotless uniform that teaches people to run away on that last day and in the in- from reality.

yes of going round and talk- to the men on the brushes is said to have built castles.

At midnight on the sand. June 2/3,1940 he made his final

Carmel

Myers felt that site

She was deliberately slamming wanted some reassurance on this in a door on the past and looking point.

In the background of her out to the future-alone.

liar emotions were surrender- film success was a happy marriage, and when it ing to the small voice of reason: "There's nothing I can do 10 gradually came forward and change what has happened. took over her career, she Thinking about

what I would ke undone in the past will not had no regrets.

help me in any way. So I must SELF-PITY stop thinking about 11."

At that moment, perhaps in a film star Carmel spirit of tragie jesting. the As a

Myers faded, but us inaugurated for herself alone a Don't Think Club. Her club the wife of Hollywood slogan was: IF YOU CAN'T agent and mother of three HELP IT, DON'T THINK ABOUT children she was a happy iT."

Sedulously avoiding being left, alone, she new friends and gradually con- fessed to them her philosophy.

HER SURPRISE

woman.

Then, suddenly, one even. ing in 1950, after 22 years' married happiness, her hus- band died.

She says: "I was utter- ly unprepared for the dreadful suddenness of the

PROTECTION

Alexander of Tunis

ound of the beaches and har bour with the Senior Naval Oficer and "on being satisßed the dexterous juggling of troops

to battle- CHE tought advice, and the that no British troops were left circaay committed

said: psychologist

"Your an share, they themselves left y. he maintained the offensive, slogen would be bad advice in for Britain."

cases where there is a hidden HIS MOTTO

10

hustled the enemy, and kept his amics moving always, save only Ics a little while in the frozen depths of winter. Any relaxation layer of guilt--when people feel that they are in someway

for their responsible

"Alex" returned to a country of effort might have brought the tragedy.

before. stop I Otherwise, I don't see how any "unprepared, almost unarmed, oumpalen

obstruction that had been given with "hardly a weapon.' self-respecting psychiatrist can and

With the words "we should not time to grow, and become im- object."

be content to sit behind concrete Dastable but to maintain the A few friends who have shared fortifications: we should take effort required, unfaltering re- of hitting hack, solution, a mind of singular the anguish of personal suffering every chance

fortitude, and outstanding 13 01 enemy can build a common wall of pro-especially

generalship." tection against the lowness of cast expecting us," he began as Southern Command to GOC in started seeking out spirit that comes from grief. rebuild his part

any

where the

the

blow. When the immediate even for serious pastigation from Don't Think Club because it is slaps in the enemy's defen- cd by inct as well as auto11

Impact of horror had pass- ed, I found myself caught in

chrnestly,

Mtied

In June 1944, after the cop-

Field-Marshal, and six months- to plan It is true that misery loves Army. He hape the Britin bure of Rome, he was promoted later he became Supreme Com- company. But there is one great Battle Training Schools, took later and important difference in the every opportunity to perfect commander, Mediterranean, His-suc- operation with the RAF, and cess in this Command, with its experiment that helped Carmel cert junior officers to act many political as well as military HE was prepared for scoffing Myers find happiness again.

quickly in taking advantage of responsibilities, was accomplish and ridicule from some; for a patronising attitude.from others;

Misery must mask itself in a

system.

by persuasion as much as by a rule that nobody is permitted; His motto was "Attack, attack quickness of decision. His troeps specialists in the more accepted

in his or anybody and attack again even when you came from a score of national- and spiritual to wallow

else's sorrow, The whole pur- are on the defensive," and he lies; he had delicate negeditions with Ballcan countries, and in. forms of mental therapy.

into

with memor practice memoriwa war in Greece to handl

handle... a whirl of self-pity that

pose in to rise above pain, not put To her

her surprise, she found just to linger with it.

able success. Just ten years ago grew worse with every the contrary. Men and women

he carried out another dangerous

POPULAR passing day."

who would ordinarily be cynical Grief can become a possessive and difficult task of extrication Quickly all the words of about such matters responded and deadly thing if allowed to in Burha where the minute "After all he had. setnof

blind us to the world about us. | 435 food was threatened sympathy and consolation

writes. Linic- from her friends became They accepted her viewpoint. It is not so much what happens annihilation, and during the long battle, after the immense burden

She said: "It is a matter of to us that counts, but how we fighting four-month retreat over he had carried, constant reminders that re- closing off your mind like a mect, and handle it.

same of the worst terrain in the later, it would have been po world, his regiments time after surprise if his face had been. opened a door of pain.

time broke through encircling' Unod and grim and grand

'or 'imperious past ali Japanese forces, attacking and hitting back repeatedly while on Instead he looked at the world unscarred, beneath..brows that --ways that have brought As the months passed-bring- HIS guiding faith of a film the defensive, peace of mind to millions ing time's slow healing of all Blar is a philosophy that

Then, in August 1942 and now were slightly raised in a pollte.

astonishment." found that works for everyone. In fight generol, he became one of who have suffered the ill-Carmel Myers

of Allied

"Lord Alemaniar: was appointed pathos of sudden loneliness, seven friends were sharing with ing her way out of the darkness the supreme directors Succeeding her the simple formula of her that she knew two years ago, strategy:

General Governor-General of Canada in Carmel Myers has found a sure Aushimieck as C-C Middle July 1945, and his term or price Don't Think Club.

He has ESCAPE

They, too, each had some path that leads from a deaden- Eart at a time when the Axis was twice expanded,

were within 60 miles of achieved great popularity in the private sorrow-but when they ing emptiness of spirit to a living] forte delta, 90- was able to discharge or his duties, and: his BUT Carmel Myers felt mot they studiously immered it. fullness.

signal the Prime Minister nine departure is much regretted In of 60, that she must seek a The moment any of these friends

alerted tell-tale' catch in the It is not easy to take the first months later, after what he Canada. Now, at the age of remedy of her own to help voice; a gradual drift back into step towards a Don't Think has described as "an unusually he resumes his old and fruitful

of raise her

the association with Me Churchill example spirit from the grammar of self-pity, they Club. But once you do, she says, complete

14 rt another oritical moment of annihilation": despair.

would call their weaker brother it is a short cut to peace of mind. battle

my duty to report that the in Britain's history, and plunges or mister to order, They chided In a new book, "DON'T THINK one another about observing the

chemy resistance has ceased. We day policy, ABOUT IT" (Doubleday, New York), club's rules,

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