28 MARCH 1941, Page 5

My note of last week about Generals Brooke, Dill and

Pile brings the reminder that " these officers are in the aggregate at least 1331 per cent. Irish." I cannot guarantee the fraction, but the figure is substantially accurate, and the fact itself notable—particularly since it inevitably recalls such Irishmen as Roberts, Kitchener and French—to say nothing of the Duke of Wellington. Since all of them were born in Ireland before that country was divided rival claims, to their nativity hardly arise. * *