FROM SCHOOL TO ARMY
SIR,—Mr. Whitworth's article will be welcomed as throwing light upon a very human aspect of the National Service Acts in these days when the individual assumes a position of ever lessening importance. I was deferred at the age of 18, in 1946, to study law. But I am sure that I express the opinions of many of my fellow students in saying that when the time comes for me to enter the armed forces, I shall at least have imbibed the theory of my profession and shall have reached a sufficiently mature age to appreciate the purpose of National Service in relation to the troubled state of our world. Mr. Whitworth is surely generalising in his conclusions on the relative adaptabilities of schoolboys and students to service life. One comes to the conclusion, after mixing with ex-service- men and boys straight from school, that it is a matter of the temperament of the individual in each case.—I am, yours faithfully, ROBIN SINCLAIR.
Westleigh, 8 Belper Road, Derby.
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