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Definition of perfect

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E. M. DELAFIELD

*

A

YOUNG man, then in his late twenties. once lamented to me that his mother-

a widow-had done a thoroughly bad day's work in bringing him up to a standard known to her- self and her friends as "having perfect manners."

He complained, probably with absolute truth, that the perfect manners had caused him to be loathed and despised by all his contemporaries from his prep, school days onwards, and that it had cost him a great deal of trouble to rid him- self of his superfluous politeness in a world in which plainly no demand whatsoever existed for "perfect. manners.”

Actually, what I think he really meant was that his mother, had brought him up to the for- mulas and small social graces of her own early youth--and that they were just about as much in place as might have been the velvet suits and long ringlets of Little Lord Fauntleroy carried on into the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck era.

change in the

since 1914 Army

THE

HE British "Tommy" has been remodelled into a superman. Foot-slogging is finished. Mr. Atkins, ex- pert gunner, mechanic, and soldier combined, will drive into the fray.

soldier.

-by-

Lieut.-Col. T. A. LOWE,

Daily Mail Services Correspondent

and

♫

We come across some strange exemples of bad manners, nowa- days.

The young man of 20 who wrote a letter to his future father-in-law and addressed kim as "Dear Robinson" was lacking in courtesy, probably througli aheer ignorance.

So was the girl who, appar- ently bored by my converantion when her mother brought her to my house for tea, took up a book and read it until it was time to

Heard At Lord's

go.

On the other hand, I was a

1

good deal Impressed by conversation that 1 heard nol very long ago at Lord's.

Two people were sitting exactly I couldn't see them, but

behind me.

it was easy to guess that one war an elderly man and the other a very young girl.

"We used to have great times at Ranelagh, I remember," he sold. "The thing to do in those days was Henley Regatta, don't-cha-know."

And each time the other voice re-

Each vehicle has one Bren very word "infantry" is derived The present remodelling of the infantry battalion, the big gun, and its armour is to enable from the Latin infana, meaning

it to cross bullet-swept arcas infant, which explains why. gest change in the Army since and carry its crew into action. 1914, will provide a superior The crew of three men, when mounted lord was called a boy,

The varlet or follower of fighting machine. By training they have reached a covered the foot soldier to drive carriers, position, dismount and select and he "trod privily after his to use light machine-guns as suitable ground from which to master." Our wily varlets, the modern infantry, hope to follow well as his rifle, to fire mortars, use their weapons.

the heavy tanks in the same

The man had a great deal to any. and to ride in trucks, we arc

It is easy to see how useful way, and rather expect that their and it was all about some blissful converting the carefree, irre- this carrier platoon would be in lordships in the land cruisers period that he referred to as "the old and that apparently went sponsible "Tommy" into a super- a modern war. It can protect will collect a goodly share of the days."

riflemen who are fighting their dirty work before the infantry-cy, way back into the early nine-

teen-hundreds, The first answer to the ques- When brains and brawn are way forward. It opens up new men's turn comes.

The tactical handling of the tion is the disappearance of all evenly distributed, the result possibilities. The attack of an

will be the ideal infantryman, infantry battalion may become remodelled battalion has changed Cerman ships from the seven whose image must live in the a thing of manoeuvre in every way. The responsibili.

minds of the Army Council, imagination instead of a process ties of the C.O. have increased, plied pleasantly, giving exactly the seas, the concentration of Ger- otherwise they would not con- of disaster, as so often happen- many's fleet in the funk-hole at tinue to spend vast sums on his ed on the Somme and at Pas, and therefore we must expect a right effect of being deeply interest- higher standard of intellectualed in reminiscences that were really chendaele during the Great

themselves development.

War, when men dreaded service attainment from infantry officers so utterly pointless

than in the past.

that even a contemporary inust have in the doomed battalions of the

found them dreary. Besides, they "P.B.I."

New weapons will only give nothing to do with the cricket match were very long-drawn-out, and hod The new mobility which has security to troops when they that was going on.

have obtained the mastery of been created for infantry by them, but the remodelled batta- mechanised vehicles may enable lion has already begun a renais- the soldier to return to the sunce which may give us com- individualiam of the light infan- plete superiority over massed in the North Sea, and other THE recruit must still, of try in the days of the Peninsular armies of conscripts, who cannot British squadrons patrol all the course, receive sound in. War.

hope to be in the same class, if struction in his rifle, which is

It was then Britain's diatine- only because of the material re- now considered as a weapon for tion to produce something new, quired. his personal protection. He

35lb. Pack a carpa d'clite of skirmishers The Navy List for July-the will not spend nearly so much who could use their brain as last one, in peace time form, that time with it on the barrack well as their weapons, and who the British Army the term attend to, rather than anybody's

Wilhelmshaven, where the

Their conviction is that the R.A.F. mercilessly bombed the

infantry soldier of the future warships yesterday.

I will be neither a "tough guy" nor a "softie," but a hard-work- The Home Fleet, which is bying artisan, a skilled craftsman, fur the most powerful fighting and a self-respecting citizen. flect in existence, is at its station

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square or

Wea-

in

When I eventually contrived to that the gentleman was even more turn round and take a look, I saw elderly than I had supposed and singularly devoid of the charm so often seen in the elderly: that of a distinguished appearance.

The girl was 20 at the very most: completely sophisticated to look at, beautifully dressed and made up,

and with her eyes fixed on the cricket pitch, so that one felt certain it really was the game that she had wanted irrelevant conversation.

to

thought, and still think, that she had shown the truest kind of good manners in being so nice to her tire- somely garrulous old escort--even though her vocabulary was slipshed, slangy and occasionally blasphemous. "Miss Er"

"light infantryman" is as on the ranges; in for that reason, surpassed the applicable to-day as it was in the will be issued until after the war stead, he must become wedded infantry of other armies. Peninsular War. No longer is -records the existence in fight- to his Bren gun, upon which all

The strength in man-power of the foot soldier expected to ing trim of no fewer than 324 future tactics will be based.

the Territorial Army Field march or

run with bayonet, principal British warships. They became more helpless as

In the Great War the infantry Force, entirely exclusive of the haversack, water-bottle, and en- seven Anti-Aircraft divisions trenching tool jangling round

his thighs. include 12 battleships, 3 battle-pons became more powerful, and and the Coast Defence units, is

ENUINE. pollteness, which has cruisers, 59 other cruisers, for a time nearly all movement 295,000. This week nearly 160,-

Instead, he wears a narrow was stopped...The advent of the 000 men are out in training, belt and two braces on which for other people and in the exercise its origin in consideration anti-aircraft ships, 9 aircraft- Bren gun is likely to restore the learning how to work in ro- pouches for ammunition are of self-control, has little to do with

balance and re-establish the modelled battalions. carriers, 18 flotilla leaders, 161 offensive power of the foot-

carried In front. On his back, formulas, and less still with social The whole of this force is in the sensible manner of the graces and there will always be a destroyers, and 58 submarines. soldier.

available for association with hiker's pack, he carries his demand for it.

Naturally, one has one's personal If minor warships, such as mine- The remodelled infantry bat the Regular Army in any part haversack, with water-bottle, prejudices and preferences. To be layers and gunboats, be added, talion consists of an HQ. com- of the world, should necessity mess-tin, knife, fork, and spoon, shaken hands with by someone who

pany, and four other companies, the grand total rises to 459. each of three platoons of three arise, and it is being provided and a warm cardigan jersey, all at the same time looks away from with modern weapons and equip- inside. The total weight of the you is minor dlacourtesy that I always and myself resenting as though it were a major one. sections. The rifle strength is, ment on exactly the same scale. load complete is 861b. To this mighty force we are therefore, less by one platoon ***

And I sympathiend heartily with Clad in this fashion, he can the young guest staying in my house now adding more than one new per company than before, but The plan is not yet complete, jump into armoured vehicles or whom I took out to tea with a neigh-

against this the Commanding but meanwhile, to show what can Tel. 50040. warship every week. With the Officer has a vastly increased be accomplished or improvised, trucks without discomfort, and bour, when she afterwards sald pite- ously that she wouldn't have minded fire strength under his hand. the 2nd London Infantry Brigade if he goes on parade with oil being called nothing at all, but that ; His 60 Bren guns, his mortar (T.A.) moved out of London to stains on his clothes he is not

as "Miss Er.” as something which has escaped column of 450 vehicles; platoon, his carrier platoon, and camp at Burley in a mechanised regarded by the sergeant-major his pioneer platoon, are all new

from a cheese. acquisitions and provide him The move was carried out

New, brooms sweep clean in His 25 trucks ensure mobility. Campbell, as Assistant Provost- bristles become less penetrating with tremendous hitting power. without a hitch, and Sir Malcolm the Army at first. In time the The personnel of the carrier Marshal, with a' large force of and the dust settles down in its

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at CHINA BUILDING (opp. Hongkong Hotel)

she did rather object to being ad- dressed on three separate occasions

And few things are more madden- ing than to be badgered by some well-meaning friend on the subject

gut why can't you come to

morrow?

I'm afraid I'm already booked." "Where?"* case thanks to the action of at Brighton.

"I have to go to see on old friend tho totalitarian States-the

I know? Why "Is it anyone How The Tanks

broom has been exchanged for shouldn't we go together? I should BRITISH Infantrymen have al- a vacuum cleaner, and the pately the triply one way of dealing ways managed to adapt tern on the carpet is at last re with this type of bad manners, and themselves to situations. The vealed.

that is to be absolutely Brutal.

controlled the traffic en route. and 29 other ranks, and they travel in ten small, beetle-like To Follow vehicles, pictured above, with tractor wheels and armoured

bodies. Their roléis entirely Becret of submarine destruction. different from the tank.