" OUR MILITARY BRASS-HATS " [To the Editor of THE
SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Colonel Mozley accuses me of attempting to emulate Munchausen—I wish I had a little of the ability of the authors of the Baron's Memoirs and of Alice in Wonderland. My story, making allowance 'for the fact that the inciIdnt occurred some twenty years ago, was not wholly devoid of truth. Further, I was not trying to pull the legs of the readers of The Spectator, but merely attempting to show that knowledge occurs at times in strange places ; and this for the benefit of the learned who lay down the law from the hallowed precincts of All Souls.
But the latter may be right and I wrong ; and it may be—to misquote Bromley-Davenport's famous patody of Locksley, Hall- " Weakness to be wroth with weakness ! I'm an idiot for my
Pains ;
Nature made for every ' soldier ' an inferior set of brains."
To please Colonel Mozley and the persistent critics of the
professional soldier, let us leave things at that !—I am, &c.,
Aldermoor, Beaulieu, Hants.
H. LETHBRIDGE ALEXANDER.
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