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THE Lord of Prendergast,

"righte valiaunt capitaine," indicate now which 1 strici copyright sailed from Pembroke

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Charles Vereker, a gentleman serve all rights and forbid noubliestien, of Brabant, crossed the North- her wholly or in part without previo ern Seas to lay his sword at the service of Charles the First. When the King lost his head, Puritan Cromwell disposscased him of his Commission, and the can gentleman also sailed across to

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Quietly and methodically, this year, we have seen our military defensive system made more up-to-date, more supple, more useful and more democratic. But the public knows little of Britain's Number One Soldier, the man who, under War Secretary Hore-Belisha, is at the head of England's khaki forces—Lord Gort.

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Lord Gort was a boy of 16 when he succeeded to the title- he is the sixth of his line to hold it, and, being an Irish Vis county it does not entitle him to sit in the House of Lorda. He did not inherit. all the estates until he was 25. The estates included East Cowes Castle, built by Nash, in the Isle of Wight, coincidentally a replica of another Nash castle owned by

ignore the world-wide horror Ireland to seck some use for his mans were holding the canal as appointments, at the Staff Col- the Gorts in Ireland which they expressed at their atrocities in sword. That was in the mid- their line with all the despera- lege, as Director of Military were compelled to sell. Toscanini and N.B.C. Orchestra. Poland.

seventeenth century.

tion of despair. Gort's orders Training in India, and as head He inherited 1 fortune of : { ̈ ̈ ̈Colónel Vereker, later an Irish were to cross,

of Camberley College, where the £10,000 from an old friend-of- Marian Anderson. It is useless to deny them peer, was in command of a rag- He was wounded, but the, Duke of Gloucester Was a his family, Mrs. Louisa Frances

altogether; too much has been time force of 300 militiamen. A wound did not stop him. The student. It

was during his Kate Thiele, who left this tri- revealed OR unimpeachable strong force of the French were attack was checked by a bitter, first

Instructorship that he bute to him in her will: authority. The line the Nazis threatening the stronghold of heroic resistance, but Gort, his earned his nicknames, for there

Sligo. The peer out-manoeuvred khaki stained with blood as well are two, now take is to say that the Poles and out-fought the enemy, re- as mud, led a platoon down a

suffering deserved celving the thanks of both sunken road and took the Ger- for his cheeks are full, and he

He was called "The Fat Boy," are only punishment for the outrages Houses of Parliament. That mans in the flank. Again he they themselves committed was in 1798.

was hit, but he went on, The blood of all three war- against helpless Germans in

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The great happiness of my life has been in watching his fine character develop itself, his successful career, and the use he has made of his talents, wealth, and position in the unselfish service of his coun-

has the same air of confident, unruffled, serene composure that distinguished Haig, and was,

try. perhaps, the earlier commander's

At least we shall not be

the veins to-day of General Lord HE saw a top-went to it strongest asset. He was also

It was not only old ladies who No euch atrocities were per- Gort. Chief of the Imperial- across open ground,-merci--called "The Tiger" for his fero knew him since the age of four, petrated by the Foles, but that General Staff, Britain's Kit lessly riven with machine-guns city in seeing that the tasks he who held such opinions of him. and heavier metal, took com- imposed were not only done, but Lord Cavan described him as is a matter of no consequence to His name recalls the Norman mand of it, and dislodged the done well. Goebbels and his crew. It is knight, John Standish Surtees enemy, And still he went on.

"The Army's best soldier" and It is recorded that once he set General Sir Ian Hamilton said of easy to invent atrocities; and Prendergast Vereker. His arms A shell splinter hit him a third his entire class to write a precis him on his highest appoint- that they have donc on a great recall the Irish Peer, for above time and loss of blood laid him of the lecture he had just deliver- ment: "Thank goodness we have scale, as they had many times the Latin motto Vincit Veritas on a stretcher. But from the ed the instant his last sentence a proper 'soldier in command (Truth Conquest) there runs stretcher the seated, bleeding had fallen from his lipsand before.

the arrogant motto, Colooney, figure continued to shout hoarse raged at the badness with which shot sitting.". the name of the village five miles orders until the skirmish re the essays were written. from Sligo, where the second sulted in a rout; 200 men were It was indirectly, another Viscount Gort and his rabble taken; the machine-guns that shattered the trained

of had made the canal impregnable facet of his career-in which also SINCE his appointment he has dined with the French High were smashed; and the two his ancestry can be traced that batteries of field-guns that had brought him to his present post- Command under the shadow of laid a barrage across the road he should be, bearing the name he has toured the Middle East: Gort is a sportsman-as shelled and restored-Rheims;

of Surtees: one of his ancestors, he He caused to be published in MALL wonder that Lord Gort were captured,

himself took to the profession of

expressed That was the truth behind the his maternal grandfather, was steadily in the outworn yet all the German nowspapers, infarms as a duck to water. He brief, cold, official lines that re- the creator of Jorrocks; another, still effective, rhetoric of the blazing type, an account of a was educated at Harrow, where commended him for his V.C. that Bessie Surtees who eloped Army: "The Empire was won by light across Germany of acro- the Army Class used to be the

Jump a decade, and you will with the man who became Lord the sword: it has been preserved planes, of unknown nationality, only section of the school that see Gort again, still and equally, Chancellor Eldon.

was forgiven for working hard. a "righte, valiaunt, capitaine." which scattered leaflets over the He went to Sandhurst, and, at In 1927 he was in China as Chief

10, was in the Regulars.

of Staff to Sir John Duncan-

Goebbels, in fact, began his career with an ingenious trick, designed to gond the German people into enthusiasm for the France. establishment of a national air

force.

land.

No such flight had taken

arms

tion.

has

by the sword; it can be safe- guarded only by the sword"----- also by the tank, the aeroplane, manifold: he the minchine-gun- and the.

He rushed upward through when the Chinese were being HIS sports are

hunts (not like Mr. Jer bayonet.

the military hierarchy like a blackguarded in the bulk of the

senior officers.

place, but the conspirators got rocket. He was a Captain in British Press as a "lot of Yellow rocks), he yachts, he pilota his He is all for the true Co- their way, and that was the 1914, a brevet-major two years Reds," and the ruthless old Man- own neroplane-a trick he began operation between the three beginning of the furious inter-later, acting Lieutenant-Colonel, churian War Lord Chang Teo- to learn in middle-age, he sp fighting services, and his son, a rank confirmed after the war. lin was regarded as the hope of proves of the team games that acting as unpaid Private Secre national competition in the air. His full coloneloy came to him civilisation against the "mur teach playing for the side and tary to Mr. Duff Cooper, has Since then Goebbels has never in 1926, he was a Major-General derous Communist" Chiang Kai- the winter-sports. Once, coming given effect to his father's down a mountain he collided theories for he has served both looked back. He produces ntro- in '35, and both a Lieutenant- thek 1

another skier. In the War Office and the Ad- citles at any time, anywhere, on General and' a full General- ́in

Gort was in the Paoshan area violently with any scale; and then the murder 1937. His last promotion-when with, a French missionary, Fr. Said one: "Who the hell are miralty.

He believes in character as ********** | gangs are let loose among the he was created Chief of the Robert Jacquinot, a Jesuit who you?" Said the other, laconic-

victims to wreak what is called him clean over the heads of 90 number of nuns were in danger.

Imperial General Staff-carried is also something of a saint. A ally: "Gort!"

That informal but effective much as in ability as a pre- requisito of command. He. retributive justice,

Gort and Jacquinot went out un introduction lald the basis of a quotes a German general as any. He has not betrayed his blood. armed amid a horde of yelling friendship, and, when the other ing that Joffre or Haig might Gort holds more medals than yellow men. The trim uniform skler Leslie Hore Belisha, casily have been defented on any other man of his rank. The of the soldier enraged them, but Minister of War-was conning manoeuvres by von Moltke or hair. over names to be his Military Ludendorff, "but compare Joffre thep.5.0, with three bare, Quietly, almost as a lion-tamer Secretary, his eye lighted on that with von Moltke at the Marne.or representing four separate acts holds his beasts in check by the of the man who had crashed into Haig in March, 1918, with that justified its award; and the power of the human eye, he him. little bronze cross Inscribed moved, on, unharmed.'

Slowly the yelling died to But Gort, was on manoeuvres. AFTER leaving three endear-or Valour" and carrying a ing notes at the home of Mias Pension of £10 a year, the V.C., silence, broken only by the fluent "Bring my car round," said H.B.,

ability and character: the man Chinese of the priest. Together and off he went to Aldershot. Wendy Barrie, the film actress,018,

Gort was, in command of a they escorted the women to But Gort was a mere Major who would play the Kitchener 22-year-old Robart Stone, wa

of the battallón

Grenadiers safety. arrested in Hollywood."

General, too lowly a rank to ad- to the Halg of Ironside. floundering in the mud flats that

mit of his holding the new job. In the last war there was also So, when he came back to Lon- a Tiger: "old"Clemenceaus,thè. In the notes Stone told Miss Barrie W September, 1918, when the As well as being a soldier of the don with the Minister, he was politician, who was named by his hand, Lord Gort in a soldier promoted Lieutenant-General, country Father Victory. In this that he had a gift for her and would German machine was being.

war, the Tiger is a soldier, The Ger of the head: thrice he has held and took it on. forced into reverse.

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Love notes M.C. in 1916, the D.S.O. in 1917 Gort

to

Wendy

He is hold on suspicion of robbery, bordered the Canal du Nord. It says, United Press.

viall her soon..

turned nover

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"Send for Gort!" said H.B.

Ludendorff in the August of the Bame year."

Gort, it would seem; has both