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If we remember rightly such well-known Chief Com- missioners as

Bradford and Warren continued in office till an appreciably greater age. If the case against Lord Byng failed on the ground of age so also did it fail on the ground of his being a soldier. Possibly the tail of the Labour Party, which often wags the dog, remembered rather acutely that the police in the General Strike set an unforgettable example of devotion to duty, and this per- formance may have been resentfully attributed to a spirit too military in character. Yet it was not unnatural that by established custom the Chief Commissioners should be soldiers. A soldier has spent his life in studying the art of controlling and leading men, and—admittedly in different circumstances—the same art has to be practised with the police. *

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