10 APRIL 1959, Page 8

WHEN COLONEL GRIVAS left Cyprus for Athens, M. Raymond Aron

laid it down that his final insult to this country was to wear very ill-cut breeches. The Field, which might have been ex- pected, to take this particularly hard, 114., on the contrary, I see, sprung to Grivas's defence. It chivalrously points out that 'It is only fair to the Colonel to say that his deshabilM was due not only to his not having an English tailor to make his breeches, but also to his not having a well-bred English leg to put inside them. These drawbacks constitute an insuperable obstacle in the way of all foreigners who aspire to wear breeches.'

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