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By Modern Training?

PLASTIC

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porta is plastic surgery. The latest account to hand concerns an Eng-

lish girl whose jaw was tractured THE Undersigned have receive

fewer than five times

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HERBERT RUSSELL, in the "United Services Review.motor-cycle accident, and whose face was rebulit bý súrgeons using I suppose it was inevitable that, week and almost from day to day, a photograph as their guide. following the Press controversy

and in no case can I remember Stories of others equally seriously. on "Brains in the Army," a similar being asked for detailed instruc-disfigured whose good looks have discussion should arise in connec-

tiona; usually I expected and re-❘ been restored are plentiful. The tion with the Navy. Vice-Adml.ceived a precise account of the knife, in these daya of modern A. F. B. Carpenter. V.C. of Zee-particular happening and the a-surgery, has lost many of its ter- ror and has acquired a new algni- brugge and Ostend fame, started tion taken or proposed." it with a letter to the "Times." His thesis was that while "discip Jine of action” is essential and ad- mirable, discipline of thought." beyond a very small degree, is al- together dangerous. "In words, there should be as little as possible of "brain control" in the training of naval officers, leaving them to think for themselves.

i which, presumably, is the neces sary, condition" of initiative and

resource,

other

Adml Carpenter illustrated his argument with the experience of the war. At the beginning of" bostilities, he said, the prevailing tendency was to "request instruc-

It may be pointed out that this ficance..

But, like so many other of hu- rather supports Adml. Carpenter's contention. in so much as junior | manity's benefits, plastic surgery.

Lew years has been abused. Parallel with conmanding officers s

stories of smashed faces. being restored to normal come tales of the manner in which unscrupulous surgeons have been persuaded to change the appearance of fugitives from justice, particularly in Amie- rica, where the drive to crush the | gangs which at one time terrorised the big cities continues with un- abated vigour.

after the war would still retain those qualities of initiative and in dividual responsibility which he alleges they gained during the war. So let us come right up to date and take the recorded activities of the British Navy in Spanish waters since the Civil War has been in progress.

WHAT DOES GEN. FRANCO THINK?

Whatever others may think, Gen. Franco has made it emphatically clear that he has found no lack of

initiative and resource on the part

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Fortunately, even modern sur lons." but as the conniet went on

gery has not yet devised a method men acted more and more on their of the senior officers commanding whereby fingerprints can be per- own judgment and "individualism" the heavy ships or the com-manently changed other than asserted itself. He fears that the paratively junior officers com-the common and almost inexective present tendency of training is to manding the destroyers of the way of produce the "request Instructions" |British Navy which have been with "acid mentality more than ever. " carrying out. their assigned func- DANGER OF "DISCOURAGEMENT tions in Spanish waters. On the contrary, his complaint is that This seems a fair theme upon there has been altogether too which to invite discussion. My much "ndividualism." Of course, sole objection to any controversy these officers have received in- of this kind, unless the justinca-structions as to the general plan tion for it is clear beyond question, which they are to follow, but when is that it reacts in a discouraging there has been any cause for decid- way upon the class it concerns. ing a course of action not defined. Naval officers, reading that their Intelligence is stultified and that such instructions-and plenty of or even in any way indicated in

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sa on much the same principle Some few years ago now, when that if you tell a man he is look-there was a great deal of serious

ANOTHER SOVIET

PURGE

Moscow, July 6.

· Another... "purge" has started in Moscow, this time against office holders of the Communist Party. At a party meeting, it is reported,

was expelled from the party ranks, among them the chairman of the Committee, District Executive Bereala. Commissioner Cheikin.

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ing very he promptly realizes trouble in China, questions were Secretary Nezwetkov and Agricul- ́ Undersigned have received

that he is not feeling nearly as well as he thought he was.

Baresin, Cheikin, Nerwetkov and Woleschin were arrested on the charge of having damaged agricul ture, especially cattle breeding.

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asked in the House of Commons as

tural jsader woleschin. to what instructions had been'

Chefkin's wife was also expelled, Hence I must confess to a cer-

given to our naval officers in view because at the party, meeting she tain satisfaction when Adml. Bir of certain contingencies. The spoke in favour of her husband. Hugh Tweedle retorted upon his Prime Minister's reply is worth re- very gallant brother, admiral, calling. He said: "In matters of demanding to know "why it is that this sort we leave it to the discre- a number of ex-naval officers and tion of our 'naval commanders on others are so anxious to find fault the spot. We have never found with the naval officer and his that discretion fall to justify our training." and following up by confidence." Members of Parlia- atating his bellef that, as for ment so far recognized the justice failure to display initiative or take of this remark that it was greeted responsibility. he did not think, with a very considerable cheer. there is any body of men against whom the charge could be brought with less reason.

WHAT IS "DISCIPLINE OF THOUGHT"?

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It is reported that the investi is true that those who reach higher gation carried out on the Red command are so often failures." Spanish steamer *Tharpeholl," He goes on to aver that he himself by Dutch officials at the It is not altogether easy to follow cannot think of one who in modern request of English and French Silver Jubilee Error, China, British Old Hong Kong, Hong Kong Adml. Carpenter's objection to

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in- cargo on board of jewels, bonds, training-and all military training He would like to be told whether amounting to over 1 million guil- must be collective-necessitatea it is the officers composing the | ders- collective understanding." You Board of Admiralty who show such cannot train a body of men to do obvious marks of stultified im- the same thing in as many agination, lack of initiative and different ways as the numbers un-resource. and almost complete der instruction. Probably what abnegation of individualism, Adml. Carpenter has in mind is whether it is the admirals com- that the quality of initiative rests manding the fleets and squadrons in deciding when to do a thing at sea. and not how to do it; in fact, in taking responsibility.

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Amsterdam, July 6. Ela final comment upon the Recruiting in Holland for Red criticism which implies such pain continues according to the But is it really possible to train mental restrictions will call forth paper "Bredasche Courant," which for this independence of thought a quiet smile: T do happen to states that young Dutchmen are APPEAL TO SHIPPING in professional teaching? Would know them all, and it would be being systematically conveyed in not any such effort. result in amusing to bring the charge group of three and four at a producing independence of thought against any one of them and see time to Paris, from where they are against the actual teaching itself how it fared."

transported via Avignon-Beziers to The Admiralty has again and induce a frame of mind to NO AUTOMATIC PATTERN

the French port Vendres. Here, formed merchantmen, that the the effect that the way which was

I certainly do not suggest that according to the paper, steamers British Navy protects British shitp being taught is not the best way our system or naval training is, in flying the Greek flag take the ping on the way to Spain on me nf doing it at all? After all the language of Pangloss, the best recruits to Barcelona or Valencia, high seas, that is until shine reach Intelligence is a natural quality of all possible systems and could as the case may be

the three mile zone. and old Sam Johnson deaned the not be bettered. On the other Trankonnan News Service

thing very neatly when he said, "Sir, I can only give you reasons

I cannot give you understanding Naval training can teach a young officer the technicalities and the theoretical principles of his bus ness, but it must inevitably "dis cipline his thought to mastering these

MECHANICAL MENTALITY

hand, I find it very dificult to be lieve that it tends to produce an

leader."

London, July 6

Tis is stated in political circles to be tantamount to an appeal not to approach the harbour of

of the Nationalist aétivities 120 Tranitcean Newr Gerosões

automatic pattern, thereby deny to the principle of "follow my tander without protection, in ing to the Navy the best use of its brains. If a man has brains-- and I think the average standard

FITNESS TO COMMAND.

of the naval omcer is pretty good Is not "fitness to command" a

in this respect he wit De them. natural aptitude? And are not the

IN AUSTRIA

What exactly does “discipline of qualities of inlitative and resource NATIONAL SOCIALISTS thought mean? Is It a process inherent? It may be true that in which aims at confining the mind | our naval organization some of the Admi. Tweedle, who has had to a mastery of methods to the men who mitimately reach the top considerably wider experience in exclusion of all wider conception of are not necessarily those who in high command than has Admi principles? Is it that long-explod the whole Service are best, endowed Carpenter, has no use for the idexed theory that the passing of the with these natural qualities, But coming ann that naval officers are reduced to best examination is the hallmark is this not a efect of selection Gerznan a mechanical mentality by their of the highest ability?

rather than or training; and, how.

training. He says that some years Of course, it is possible to train is it to be remedied? Fr after the war he had, in one com- men to "think correctly," although love Adm! Tweedie mand a large number of ships this is rather armistacen way more than the simple under his orders, all commanded putting it actually the ocessing that of t by comparatively Junior officers | consista in imparting

rect men's the These had a great variety of facts or ideas upon wh to base ed ment Individual and difficult situations thought. But all forms of military dividi to contend with. varying week by training, as such, real

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