Two photographs which I notice side by side in Thursday's
Daily Telegraph provide a rather interesting contrast. One shows Italian tanks passing through the streets of Saarbriicken, the other the youngest member of the British force—aged, I believe; 14—making friends with some Saar children. It was recorded too that the Italian troops on arrival marched to their quarters with fixed bayonets, the British with their rifles slung and bayonets dismounted. I don't suppose the Italians are much more bloodthirsty than our own Men, but there seems more to be said for the British way. No other country really understands how our police get on without revolvers, and the British privates in the Saar will do a useful piece of missionary work if they can educate the populace to the conviction that the right place for bayonets is out of sight, and out of use. JANUS,
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