• "WHAT THE SOLDIER THINKS!' ..
Sut,—Thank you for prompt delivery, by your publishers, of two copies of the pamphlet entitled as above, which makes very interesting reading and which will, I think, be widely read and discussed by members of the Forces. I should like to congratulate you on your decision to repro- duce the various articles and letters on the subject published in The Spectator.
As an N.C.O. who has found that the original article, by "Captain, B.L.A.," is, as one correspondent has already remarked, "a very fair and exact generalisation of the views of the majority," I have derived-some little satisfaction and encouragement "from the manifestation, in this Spectator debate, of the fact that not all officers pre unmindful of the wide gap that exists between the muted masses of the Army and authority. More good will be accomplished by the ventilation, in your columns, of the views and fears of men like "Captain, B.L.A." and "Captain, M.E.F., C.M.F., B.L.A." than by the refusal of politicians and others at home to face the facts, or by attempts to gloss over them.
Before concluding, may I remind one or two -of those who participated in the discussion that a soldier may, quite logically, admire a politician or statesman for certain qualities that he possesses, and at the same time mistrust him as a politician or statesman.—Yours faithfully, SERVICE SCRIBE.
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