4 MAY 1956, Page 19

feel that Pharos is taking the same 1 ,1 seu do - shocked attitude to

the rituals he escribes as a section of the press he so often affects to despise' i„,PeoPle selected for Cranwell cadetships—or "'lee(' for any form of special service training ,,are not presumably chosen for their capacity introspection and intellectual detachment, n,t.1,t, for guts, will-power and the ability to think "i Profoundly, but quickly. if it is a type of mind that imposes on itself these some- what fantastic mental and physical tests, Pharos should remember that it is the ability to perform and not to be morally outraged by them that is shown, in another aspect, by the ability to survive in hostile territory or to escape from a well-guarded prison camp.— Yours faithfully,