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By Walt Disney
Beginning To-day: An Important New Series Of Articles on the War-By H. V. MORTON OUR GREAT NEW ARMY GENERAL DILL and the
NEW RECRUIT
balternt Their minds pivot on
these
Any Complaints?
DURING the last few weeks bosponsibility of officer 11am the natural se days of air raids it is only they never discuss their profession areas subject to bombing should be of the Imperial General Staff, without coming round to the question anxious as to what leave they can get with generals, brigadiers, of the physical and mental well-be- especially if their homes are bombed.
"Do you explain the leave rules, the colonels, majors, captains, licu- ing of
of soldiers.
reasons why leave has to be limited, "When a man no longer marches and what can be done to help the men tenants, sergeant-majors, ser- at the head of his company," said in trouble? geants, corporals and privates. General Paget to me on one of these In other words, I have talked occasions, he has, rald good-bye to to a pretty good cross-section of the best part of soldiering.
"What a lot you can learn about the British Army.
troops when you are marching at And I have talked to Sir John the head of a company! Almost us Dill and to Private Brown about much." he added with a smile, as and welcoming your new drafts of re- you can when you march behind the same thing: the Army and them" Army life. My observations on Then the other day I was sitting these matters will appear from with Sir John Dill at one of the
quick lunches snatched by him. be day to day in these pages. tween one meeting of the Cabinet
་་
"Not least, there is the question of the redress of grievances.
"Do you, In your plan for receiving
cruits, ensure that they are told to whom to gu with troubles, and the pro- cedure open to them if they feel that they have a grievance?
"I am most auxious that thin excel- lent body of men should find in the Army sympathy and understanding: that they should feel that we are doing our best to make full use of their ability and knowledge, preparing them ng quickly as possible to take their place and pull their weight in the struggle in which we are all engaged."
First, I should like to say and another. something about generals.. • Here is a man loaded with respon
When war was declared, I re- billes. He knows the icy lone-
liness of great authority, member hearing a chorus of false His mind flashed about the world prophets say that the German Aike a searchlight, touching now en Army could not be much good Libya, now on Albania, now here, because it lacked senior officers, now there, euch time revealing some-
That is a selection from a letter I was told that even men like thing Interesting and important.
Then after lunch he lit a cigarette on the care of men, here printed for General Keitel were only regi and talked about the Army. As he the first time and not written for mental officers in the last war, talked, the massed, rosetied decora publication, which the Chief of the
form
a solid Imperial General Staff has found and therefore lacked that wide tions on his
tunic, which
time to write In the midst of duties grasp of grand strategy neces- band of colour about four inches in ich keep him at work from 7.30 idepth, seemed to fade away line by sary for victory.
line; and I might have been talking an, until two and three in the morn- to an earnest young subaltern who ing
It illustrates better than any words had discovered himself for the first time in his life the mother and father of mine what I have said about our.
Army commanders, -«f-inei. Well, time has shown that Hiller's
He talked about the problems of young generals have not done too this great new teclmical army of
Jours, of
the many types of men It
budly,
Younger Generals
MONDAY:
But few people in Britain or the contains, of the varied civilian ta Empire realise that recent changes lents gathered into it, of the need From Dunkirk
in the War Office have brought to
the top precisely similar British of- for understanding, sympathy, disci- ficers: men who, 25 years age, were pline and efficiency.
wearing one pip, three pips, or per-
haps even a crown.
Take Sir Archibald Wavell, whose ormies are blitzkrieging Libya.
Human Touch
"By the way," he said, "you might
What
was he doing in the last care to read a letter I have written war? He was only a junior regi- to all officers in charge of training mental and staff officer and did not depots. It deals with the sort of achieve a colonelcy until 1921. thing we have been taking about."
Our supreme war chief, Sir John And he handed me two sheets of Dill, Chief of the Imperial General that duck-egg blue poper used only Stuff, is 59 years of age, and was a by the higher figures in the War major in 1914.
Öflee.
The Vice Chief of the Imperial I read these words;- General Staff, Sir Robert Halning, is "To-day we are taking into
the
50 years of age and was a captain Army men in all walks of life, many
1014.
ID
was also
to To-day
YOUNG PEOPLE'S QUIZ
of whom are of an nge to have formed. Who wrote: (a) "Black And Sir Alan Brooke is 58, and ideas on life in general, and a number Beauty," (b) "The 35th of
captain in the last war, of whom, with wide education, have Now this, in my opinion, is one of already reached positions of Import-May," (c) "Little Women," (d)
ance in civil life.
"The Adventures of Huckleberry the most encouraging things about "Some of them join in a critical the Army; and it is not sufficiently frame of mind--that is inevitable and Finn," (c) "Aesop's Fables"? well known.
not altogether unnatural; others, less The Army is commanded by men confident, are full of doubts ne to how who, as British generals usually go, they are going to fit into their new
mere striplings; men
whose "They are rather alarmed at the minds have not become petrined in whole prospect
Bre
Jifc.
old conflicts; men, moreover-and "Many of them are eduented men, this is most Important whose con- or men who have been running bual- tact with the rank and file is so re- ness of their own for some years.
"In these circumstances the first im- cent that they understand the pro- blems of the private soldier.
pression of the Army formed by these I should think it true to say that men is vitally important.
"How are you going to ensure that never before in the military history their impression is favourable and that of Britain has the Army been com- they start their Army life in happy manded by a more alert, unorthodox moot, keen and anxious to learn bl sympathelle group of generals. there is to learn from military service To my astonishment, the other day in its most modern form? card one of them refer, as any
might have done, to the
peculiarities of
of "the Poona mind."
I submit that such a remark could
not hav
Recruits Aided
2.
Supply the missing words in the following: (a)"Far and few, far and few, "Are the lands where the-live; (b) "Two old Bachelors were living in one house;
the other "One caught a caught a
(c) "And his Aunt-made him drink
"Lavender water tinged with pink.
"For she said The World in general knows
"There's nothing so good for a
have been made in the War Of arrival in an entirely new atmosphere.
"First of all there is the day of's toes nee 20 years ago.
"Do you see each man and have a
» Who (a) slept under the rt. would have sent a shudder of talk with him so that you will know dresser, (b) could bicker up horror through the building in which his personal history and attainment? the portraits of the Duke of Welling.
"And are his dulles ont first joining hill (c) lived in the odlum of Lon and other exalted generals would-40 arranged that he can slip an easily having discovered sodium?
as possible into Army life? have crashed indignantly to the Then there is the messing. 4. (a) Who was the Noncon- groundt
"Are your cooks good, and are you ** formist pirate? (b) Who lay But the War Ofee remained un- doing everything by your personal disturbed.
supervision to encourage them to im like a yellow cloud in the dis- It would, I think, astonish most prove?
Do they so their rations so that tance-much too busy to bark? Junior officers could they hear the red-tabbed mighty ones of the War no one need supplement his meals out (c) Who sent whom his Order of
of his own pocket?
the Cucumber? Omen talking about the Army. "And are your dining-halls, so far as would also be a great lesson to them, you can make them, places in which 5 What historical characters
In spite of the high matters of to enjoy meals?
do you associnte with (a) a "The problem of pay and allowances and organisation occupy these generals, is one which must worry men who cloak and a puddle, (b) a blind
have familles to keep. their minds are soaked in the reg, "Are your arrangements such that eye and telescope, (c) an axe montal atmosphore, :;
men can find out at once what their and a cherry-tree? Sernich most of our generals, to- financial situation is, and how their de day and you find' a'keon young su- pendenti draw their allowances?
strategy, tactics which now
Answers on Page 14
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