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MONDAY, SEPT. 14, 1936,

THE SPANIARDS AND THE MOORS

a

of

SLOW PROMOTION is a matter which exercises the minds of young officers and often brings them to the side of the critics who in- veigh against a system which places high command, in the hands of the elderly,

My sympathies are on the

| side of youth, as my memory is good enough to recall what the elderly thought and said when they were young. I am, moreover, fully con- vinced that brain power seldom develops greatly after early middle life and more frequently deterior- ates, as of course does also physical activity. The best of the young men should fully justify their selection

themselves.

of

the young

Army

Officer

By Major-General SIR C. W. GWYNN,

K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

Napolean whom only the test of war would disclose. All one can. claim is that the Brevet system should ensure that higher posts will be filled by very competent and reasonably young officers. Perhaps by the time they reach the top they will have lost some of the vigour of youth, but early promotion will have given them opportunities of widening their experience.

To attempt to push the systemi to extremes must appear mani- festly absurd to anyone who has ever attempted to weigh accur-- ately the respective merils of a number of promising officers. Any such attempt would increase. discontent, and, without the test of war, there could be no certain- ty that the right selection had been made.

One important measure, per- haps overdue, has recently been adopted to ensure that the physi- cal condition, of the elderly is satisfactory. The annual medical examination, formerly somewhat perfunctory, is now as searching as that carried out for insurance.

May not those who complain that modern armies have not pro- duced leaders to rank with Alexander and Hannibal, and who would serk to restore bygone conditions by the exaltation of of this suggestion, if rigorously other. For years

many have youth, have been carried back by in positions of much greater applied, would undoubtedly add held that this should be put their studles into the bows anl responsibility than those in greatly to the difficulty of fitting right, and somewhat half-hearted arrows period?

May they not be thinking of which, under modern condi- square pegs into square holes, efforts have been made to dea

cases. But au- the period when the reputation tions, they normally find because a first-rate administra- with extreme

five officer may not be an equal thority has never been strong of Kings depended on their vic-- ly good commander, and vice enough to overcome either the torles: when war was endemic My reason, however, tells me versa.

conservatism which has exalted and the subject of engrossing that in the Army of to-day, it is Moreover, pure chance might regimental sentiment and Tradi interest to all ambitious minds; in peace time practically impos. often lead to the survival of the tions into a fetish or the financial when the social structure, with more general its limited competition, ensured sible to provide opportunities less fit and the rejection of the objections to a which would lead to sensational, best if a vacancy were not avail- linking of promotion to length of that anything approaching genius as is done in certain among the favoured classes would rapid advancement, without run- able on the completion of an ap- service,

branches of the Service und in not lack oppurtunities of making

itself felt? ning the risk of advancing the pointment. wrong man and without inflict- On the whole, our age regula- the Indian Army.

Reforms, notably the system After all, it is not only in the ing grave injustice on the tions seem reasonable if one looks There is an aspect of the equally-or more-worthy. In on the Army as a profession of peace-time Brevet promotion, Army that genius, if it exists, war luck may offer special which must be made attractive, have aimed at saving and advane finds it difficult to struggle to the

then and not a

blind alleys it ing exceptionally promising of surface in the modern world. Spanish civil war of which

opportunities, but even

is for the less ficers rather than at beltering the Yet we may derive some comfort tieal more may be heard in the a series of strokes of luck sometimes

lot of the good average man. from the knowledge that the ex- be necessary near future, one which is causing would

before efficient,

Where, I think, junior officers However fairly such reforms are perience of the old has always to many outstanding genius received full considerable concern observers who are looking farther recognition; so many are doing have a justiable cause of com- worked, they are bound to give counted for something and that, 80 similar are the conditions rate of regimental promotion as there is the chance that among mental and physical vigour longer ahead than the present struggle, their work exceedingly well and plaint is in the inequality of the rise to some heartburning, and on the whole, men retain their

between one regiment and an- the average men is left hidden the than formerly. We refer to the use under which they do it. I nearly ict Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot.

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are recalled of the time in measures taken to improve it and I'm a learner in love-Fox Trot. Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. the Great War when the Allies render it more flexible might be The Scene Changes-Fox Trot Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. did riot scruple to bring them to carried further, I admit; but it must be obvious that Alexanders,

In similar case some of us might .....Johnson's Orchestra. the European battlefields, but, Hannibals and Napoleons cannot 8816 it's been so long-Fox Trot

to risk prosecution by be disposed some philanthrople society, and, so Every time I look at you-Fox Trot ..Johnson's Orchestra. whatever may be said of those be produced by a system, how- days. the position is not quite ever, perfect. If they are to

far from allowing the pert young the same when coloured soldiers emerge, revolutions or prolonged

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it summary chastisement in the op- | are employed in a civil war in warfare must oust system.

Promotion of star men is, The natural yourning of a war-

Magistrate presumably does not share which Europeans are

however, only one side of the weary humanity for peace and tran- Great War has brought about. It is propriate manner. But the London

instance, that mere

that reactionary outlook. He told against their own kith and kin.question, and we must consider quillity after the nerve-shattering and certain, for

of Uttle changes are ruinous distractions of the 1914-1918 mechanical The Moors whom General France the case of the average good period has been sorely disappointed, moment. Whether people walk, ride, the feckless mother that all his child- is leading against his own coun-officer. The Army is a profes. We look around and find a world or my makes precious little difference en sald he was an old fool, but that would hate to suggest that perhaps because sion, and most of those who now seething with unrest, plagued by all to anything except perhaps their ld not keep him awake at night, One-

kinds of tribulations, and some of its general health.

the worshipful offspring are right.

be said Ltd. trymen may not follow

of enter it intend. Lo make it their

most venerable and respectable tra-

Boiled right down it may be He's

A

IDEAS COUNT MOST much ditions threatened with oblivion. very

that the substance of the post-war Chater Road. Spanineds generally, They have small number than formerly en- But there is no need, therefore, to

The scheduled reforms to which change in this green and pleasant be disheartened. In due course the

Parents are the most [most likely been induced to cometer to find a pleasant occupation law of gravitation will assert itself the bold bad barons of Runnymede land of ours is an all round relaxation

into the campaign, and their before settling down to the main a

other besides purely materiast made King Jolin subscribe effected a of discipline. eventual loyalty to those whom business of their lives-n factor affairs. The dust of 1014-1010 will far greater change in this country, to blame for this, if we are to admit they are at the moment serving which has tended to make pro- settle in time, and the world will re-with more indirect effects throughout that it is at all blameworthy. The

motion sluggish.

turn to Its normal placidity. A the world, than the discovery of the hand that rocks the cradle has ceased is open to question. In some

Moreover, in the Army, unlike curious fact about this perturbing steam engine or the invention of the to agitate the corrective maternal

period of dislocation, however,

is that peroplane. For that matter we may slipper. Many people will think this quarters the view is held

most civil professions, there is a it seems to upset the elders far more claim that Christianity had infinitely is all to the good. Others will hold

Yet,

more poient Influences than either emphatically the contrary view.

I frankly admit that I

I range `my- they have seized the opportunity definitely limited, and successive than the youngsters.

self among the latter., I still pin my bow-vows, it is the youngsters who in history put together.

faith, by reason of their past grievances y diminishing, number of places thing is really going to the demnition the Great War or all the other wars

In matters of juvenile disci- It is the changes in mankind's ideas plise, to the wisdom of Solomon and against Spaniards in general. It on each rung of the ladder. Fur- will have to face the music, not the

that count most, not in people's ex- the sagacity of Dr. Johnson. The stated the other day that thermore, the lower rungs, what- grave and reverend suniors.

For this reason the older people.ternal methods of life. It the 1914- Inter was KO outrageously old- the insurgent leater is anxious fever may be conditions on Lop with whom something of the solidly 1010 upheaval means that humanity H

fashioned that he honoured express- must be occupied by the young comforting Victorian tradition still is going to abandon Christianity, aly the Lichfield widow who corrected not to take Madrid by storm, lest Those who are passed over can- llligers, ought not to be too ready to ready challenged in more than one her daughters with a birch red. And the Moorish troops should seize not indefinitely remain where let themselves reach boiling point of important European State, then we we have Boswell's testimony that the over the post-War are indeed faced by something of daughters were particularly attrac-

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of their love of him

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Old

Fools And Young Foolls

[PHEAVAL is the logfeat resalt of

explosion. A kaleidoscopic glimpse of the last eighteen years shows this to be as true politically and socially as chemically.

if every-

By An Old "Stager'

the occasion to loot the city and they are, leading a quiet, un- indignation It is not really their monstrous importance. But the roots live and well-conditioned young

maintain the flow of promotion,

funerni.

ļ

the

of Christian philosophy have spread Indies. But under cover of a pseudo- indulge in an orgy of massacre. eventful life, as is possible in symptoms.

wide and deep in nearly 2,000 years. analytical theory we have actually There may be no truth in this other professions. Wastage from

It will take a good runny political dle-schools to-day where the pupils are

to eradicate

Christian They can console themselves, iftatorshipsn of pity and compassion. story, which probably emanates natural causes is insufficient to MECHANICAL CHANGES

expressly encouraged to do just what they like. Even study is quite from "enemy" sources, but no-and it must be supplemented by they feel morally vindictive enough, It may be admitted that there are optional. one who looks to the future can a system of discards not confined with the reflection that as the post- symptoms of changed notions in our

War generation sows, so shali t own social scheme which are dis- SELF-EXPRESSION eventually reap. And the main turbing to many very decent folks. The

view with complacency the em to the upper ranks. ployment of Moors in an

heaval which is no direct concern

is whether Africa is to become the be obtained without a general grand-children

Is

If those

that

ism.

arc results

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acclaimed If, as some suggest-especially harvest will not be due until some we have just had a London Magis- up-

the critics who distrust elderly time after we reputable elders are

relationship. This emilnent legal hampered expression to youthful In- pleasant hurlyburty.

know a number of of theirs. It is, in fact, quite Generals the upper age limits tucked safely awny out of the un-trate laying down the law of family admirable. This is called giving un-

authority asserts that "a girl of six-dividuality, were drastically reduced, no doubt conceivable that, whichever way promption would be accelerated: akitudes et urse, rather à zelf teen lus the right to rule her own families where the plan has been ndopted. In these cases, without ex- Yet I cannot assure myself; life." the civil war goes, Spain will be but the same number of officers that all the scalle indignation is in-

How for this novel doctrine might ception, the results have been dia- faced with a big Moorish problem would be needed. And as the spired by pure altruism.

But these advanced ideas, which be upheld by higher judiétal opinion astrous, alike to parents and children, when the fighting comes to an "run off" would be more rapid, torian grundmamming is that they is not for me to guess. We have pre-belleve we shall find salvation only end. The larger query which is the intake would have to be pro- imagine they can teach their post-Bressed far from the state of domestic by tearing up our copybooks and

War grandchildren suck eggs. This affairs which we and described in

"Tom

Jones," for instance. It will crapping the wisdom of the ages,

will exercising the minds of observers portionally increased,

very quickly elther vindicate Could the necessary, numbers is a profound mistake.

believe Io

be remembered that the Squire's their gamekeeper ruled not only his pretty themselves or obliterate themselves nalve very.

sophistication source from which

daughter, but her buxom mother also, it will be doubly unfortunate, how. military lowering of standards? I rather they have found -out

how with an ashplant. To debate the proever, if the free democracies elect to Governments in Europe will draw doubt it, because, purely as a to make omelettes without crack-

of that regime would be to cast out discipline. From all the por- eggshells,

priely ог thut when serious trouble arises. It business proposition, the Army ing

ylte more than the acid thunder. tents the free democracies may some blueca within their reach some

selves challenged by an alliance of iron-disciplined dictatorships. If the is a pertinent question in view of would become definitely a les y nourishing synthetic delicacy, it is bolts of enfranchised modern femin-y, perhaps not far off. find them- what is happening in Spain, and attractive career, as would be not for the senile elders to contradlet

disciplined forces of the latter over- the time may come when it will realised by those young officers them. That, at any rate, appears to LESS DISCIPLINE

come the go-as-you-please communi- have to be faced. Apart from who now yearn for speedy pro- nfe the right way for both rand-

mammin and grandpa to view the If it is to be accepted that boys and ties, of the former, that will be the the ethics or otherwise of the motion when it came to their ascinating` vista of the immediate į girls in their early teens have the end of democracy-and of democra- right to rule their own lives, entirely tie free-and-engy methods. Because, issue, it can readily be seen that turn to be discarded while, in future

opinion at least, far If we are ready to adopt this philo-without parental Intervention, then I once conquered, the go-as-you-please any tendency in this direction their own

from senile.

sophie outlook there is no reason on am sincerely sorry, not so much for communities will pass under the fron might casily arouse racial ques-

Another suggestion which earth why we should risk apoplexy the parents as for the children. Their harrow of the victorious dictatorship tions of the utmost seriousness,

and waste our plous Indignation on lust state will, in a large number of sintes.

This is

bis is a prospect, it I may quote the more so since so many of the would have much the same effect, conditions which may not gratify us cases, be much worse than their first. European Powers have large re- and which would presumably be but are quite powerless to influence. Even the so-called lower animals our worthy Magistrate, which will

the habits of their young, not keep me awake serves of culoured man-power.accompanied by a reduction in Ever since the world began the old-regulate

do it a good deal one thing, I shall not be here to do: The Spanish insurgents may the upper age limit, is that the sters have been shaking their vener- and sometimes

the youngsters have been refusing to do. In the noteworthy case I am Nordic salute. For another, with duc deom it wise, on grounds of sheer number of senior officers on able heads over the youngsters, and better than human beings contrive to the goose-step and practice te expediency, to enrol Moors in half-pay should be reduced (if learn by precept or by any other quoting the sixteen-year-old girl's respect to the advanced psycho- their armies, but, as we have in- not abolished); and that no method than occasionally painful ex-mother complained grievously to the analytical reformers, there is one

perience.

Court that she could not do anything aged maxim in the truth of which I dicated, the expellency of the senior officer should hold more Probably we exaggerate the lasting with her. "She orders me about,am firmly persuaded. People even- moment may have most undesir-than one appointment in each of importance of a good many of the ignores her alsters, and calls her tually get the sort of government

they deserye... able repercussions later on. the higher ranks. Both aspects changes that the upheaval of the father and me 'old fools' "1

at night. For