A foreign member of the Pioneer Corps with whom I
have been talking—an able economic journalist engaged on the dullest of routine manual work—has made one suggestion (among many others) which is worth passing on. The men of his own company, he said, were very much better fed than the average British private because the food was prepared by a foreign cook—Austrian, I think Our island pride does not require us to deny that French or Belgian or Czech or Austrian cooking is apt to be superior to our own. So it apparently is in the Army, and the suggestion is that some of the foreign cooks should be posted to British units, if only as an experiment, the alien units from which they were drafted contenting them- selves meanwhile with understudies. There might, no doubt, be difficulties with the assistant-cooks in the British units con- cerned, but the idea seems well worth exploring.
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