THE LATE MR. BUSHE-FOX.
[To THE EDITOR OR THE SPECTATOR.1
Sze,—To the kindly appreciation of your correspondent " X." (Spectator, April 8th) let it be added that, when war came upon us, Mr. Bushe-Fox was one of the first to join the M.A. Section of the C.U.O.T.C., and, with characteristic energy, made hinfiself a thoroughly efficient master of drill and shooting. Even if illness and death had not removed him from ets, he was too old to volunteer for service abroad, but he held it to be his duty to fit himself for home defence, if the need should arise. Other and younger members of the section have had the privilege of making it the stepping-stone to commissions in the Army, while elder members, including learned Professors, have been able to do good service in helping to traln the new levies, and so, incidentally, to show that not only the gallant youth of the University are willing to do their beat to servo their country as far as they can. No one would wish to exag- gerate the practical importance of such a body of elderly amateurs as the M.A. Section. But at least it has enabled men beyond the military ago to give our soldiers the "sincerest flattery" of showing Low heartily their elders envy and respect their great opportunity. No one who knew the late Mr. Bushe-Fox, however slightly, can doubt that he had the making and the spirit of a born soldier of his King
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