13 OCTOBER 1944, Page 14

Positive Achievement

But no invaders came by land or air. Have we then, felt disgruntled, and damned the time as wasted on that training in signals, intelligence, mapping, and arms? I don't think so. Apart from all this technical stuff, coming so belatedly to many middle-aged and hundred per cent. civilians, there has been a most notable achievement—the discovery of a spirit of solidarity, that mild comradeship which is capable of suddenly hardening into 'a deep and heroic force when occasion requires.